Sonny Rollins and Doxy Records
Sign Distribution Agreement with
Sony Music Masterworks/OKeh
Sign Distribution Agreement with
Sony Music Masterworks/OKeh
New Album, "Road Shows, vol. 3,"
Due for May 2014 Release
Due for May 2014 Release
February 20, 2014
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.
Sony Music Masterworks
comprises the Masterworks, Sony Classical, OKeh, Portrait, Masterworks
Broadway, and Flying Buddha imprints. For email updates and information,
please visit www.SonyMasterworks.com.
Photo: John Abbott
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For Sony Music Masterworks/OKeh:
Angela Barkan, angela.barkan@sonymusic.com, 212-833-8575
Larissa Slezak, larissa.slezak@sonymusic.com, 212-833-6075
