Tenor
saxophonist Sonny Rollins has signed a distribution agreement with Sony Music
Masterworks and its jazz imprint OKeh Records for the release of his new Doxy
Records album, Road Shows, vol. 3. A street date of May 6 is planned.
Over the
span of his storied and still-unfolding 65-year career, Rollins has established
himself as one of the giants of jazz -- a towering influence, a trailblazer, a
powerfully creative force in the music. From his earliest masterpieces, such as
Saxophone Colossus and Freedom Suite, to his Road Shows archival series of live
performances for his Doxy label in the 2000s, Rollins has presented his
peerless music without compromise -- and to consistent international acclaim.
The new
CD contains six tracks recorded between 2001 and 2012 in Saitama, Japan;
Toulouse, Marseille, and Marciac, France; and St. Louis. "Patanjali,"
a striking new Rollins composition, is given its debut recording.
A Grammy
winner for his CD This Is What I Do in 2000, Rollins received a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in
2004. In 2006 he was inducted into the Academy of Achievement at the
International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles, and in May 2007 was a
recipient of the Polar Music Prize, presented in Stockholm. In 2009 he became
the third American (after Frank Sinatra and Jessye Norman) to be awarded the
Austrian Cross for Science and Art, First Class; and in 2010 he was named the
Edward MacDowell Medalist, the first jazz composer to be so honored.
More
recently, Rollins was presented with the National Medal of Arts at a White
House ceremony in March 2011, and later that year he received the Kennedy
Center Honors. In the Jazz Journalists Association's 2013 Awards, Rollins was
named Emeritus Jazz Artist/Beyond Voting.
"Having
worked with Sonny on his previous Doxy albums, I am honored and pleased that he
chose the newly launched OKeh label as the partner for his future musical
adventures. He is an inspiration to all of us at the label," says Wulf
Müller, who oversees A&R for OKeh Records.
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