Sonny Rollins Movies

The Drum Waltzes explores the life and music of legendary drummer, activist Max Roach, his creative peaks, personal struggles and re-inventions from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Max Roach

The true story of a British heiress's love for jazz genius Thelonious Monk.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Helen Mirren

Featuring a specially-shot introduction with Jamie Cullum, Arena presents a lost treasure - Sonny Rollins performing at Ronnie Scott's in 1974. After...

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Cast: Sonny Rollins

Four giants of the tenor saxophone -- including the legendary John Coltrane -- are featured in this collection of rare performances recorded in the...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Coltrane

Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes uses his 80th birthday concert to look into the man and his music.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sonny Rollins

Jazz trumpet legend Roy Hargrove, deemed by his peers as a musical prophet, up close and personal like you have never seen him before. The film...

Genre: Music

Cast: Roy Hargrove

Portrait of the jazz great during his self-enforced exile from his audience as protest against the war in Vietnam. Filmed playing with students in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins live from Madrid on October 26, 1993.

Genre: Music

Cast: Sonny Rollins

Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in jazz history, and still, today, he is viewed as the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sonny Rollins

An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Denzel Washington

A native of Wilmington, Delaware, jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown made an outstanding and influential contribution to music. In an era when many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Rollins

A documentary about the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records and its German founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. As jews they had to flee...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alfred Lion

Jazz Icons: Sonny Rollins features two intimate concerts filmed in the '60s for Danish television at the pinnacle of one of his most creative...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sonny Rollins

Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine. Just...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Quincy Jones