# Sonny Rollins discography

This article presents the discography of the jazz saxophonist and band leader Sonny Rollins.

## Studio albums

| Date | Album | Label |
| 1953 | Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet | Prestige |
| 1954 | Moving Out | Prestige |
| 1955 | Work Time | Prestige |
| 1956 | Sonny Rollins Plus 4 | Prestige |
| 1956 | Tenor Madness | Prestige |
| 1956 | Saxophone Colossus | Prestige |
| 1956 | Rollins Plays for Bird | Prestige |
| 1956 | Tour de Force | Prestige |
| 1956 | Sonny Boy | Prestige |
| 1957 | Sonny Rollins, Vol. 1 | Blue Note |
| 1957 | Way Out West | Contemporary |
| 1957 | Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 | Blue Note |
| 1957 | The Sound of Sonny | Riverside |
| 1957 | Newk's Time | Blue Note |
| 1957 | Sonny Rollins Plays (split album with Thad Jones) | Period |
| 1958 | Freedom Suite | Riverside |
| 1958 | Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass | MetroJazz |
| 1958 | Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders | Contemporary |
| 1959 | St Thomas (In Stockholm, 1959) | Dragon |
| 1962 | The Bridge | RCA Victor |
| 1962 | Sonny's Time | Jazzland |
| 1962 | What's New? | RCA Victor |
| 1963 | Sonny Meets Hawk! | RCA Victor |
| 1964 | Now's the Time | RCA Victor |
| 1964 | The Standard Sonny Rollins | RCA Victor |
| 1965 | Sonny Rollins on Impulse! | Impulse! |
| 1966 | Alfie | Impulse! |
| 1966 | East Broadway Run Down | Impulse! |
| 1972 | Next Album | Milestone |
| 1973 | Horn Culture | Milestone |
| 1975 | Nucleus | Milestone |
| 1976 | The Way I Feel | Milestone |
| 1977 | Easy Living | Milestone |
| 1979 | Don't Ask | Milestone |
| 1980 | Love at First Sight | Milestone |
| 1981 | No Problem | Milestone |
| 1982 | Reel Life | Milestone |
| 1984 | Sunny Days, Starry Nights | Milestone |
| 1987 | Dancing in the Dark | Milestone |
| 1989 | Falling in Love with Jazz | Milestone |
| 1991 | Here's to the People | Milestone |
| 1993 | Old Flames | Milestone |
| 1996 | Sonny Rollins + 3 | Milestone |
| 1998 | Global Warming | Milestone |
| 2000 | This Is What I Do | Milestone |
| 2006 | Sonny, Please | Emarcy |

## Live albums

| 1957 | A Night at the Village Vanguard | Blue Note |
| 1959 | Sonny Rollins at Music Inn | MetroJazz |
| 1959 | Oleo 1959 | Old Style |
| 1962 | Our Man in Jazz | RCA Victor |
| 1965 | There Will Never Be Another You | Impulse! |
| 1973 | Sonny Rollins in Japan | Victor (Japan) |
| 1974 | The Cutting Edge | Milestone |
| 1978 | Don't Stop the Carnival | Milestone |
| 1985 | The Solo Album | Milestone |
| 1987 | G-Man | Milestone |
| 2001 | Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert | Milestone |
| 2008 | Road Shows, Vol. 1 | Emarcy |
| 2011 | Road Shows, Vol. 2 | Emarcy |
| 2014 | Road Shows, Vol. 3 | Okeh |
| 2016 | Road Shows, Vol. 4: Holding the Stage | Okeh |

## As sideman

With Miles Davis
* Miles Davis and Horns (Prestige, 1951)
* Dig (Prestige, 1951)
* Collectors' Items (Prestige, 1953)
* Bags' Groove (Prestige, 1954)
With Dizzy Gillespie
* Duets (Verve, 1957)
* Sonny Side Up (Verve, 1957) - also with Sonny Stitt
With J. J. Johnson
* J. J. Johnson's Jazz Quintets (Savoy, 1949 [1957]) – four tracks
* Mad Be-Bop (Savoy, 1949 [1978]) – eight tracks (as above, plus alternate takes)
* Trombone By Three (Prestige, 1949 [1956]) – album shared with Kai Winding and Bennie Green, original 78rpm issues under the New Jazz imprint
With Thelonious Monk
* Monk (Prestige, 1954)
* Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige, 1956) – 10-inch issue released in 1953
* Brilliant Corners (Riverside, 1957)
With Max Roach
* Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (EmArcy, 1956) - with Clifford Brown
* Max Roach + 4 (EmArcy, 1956)
* Jazz in ¾ Time (EmArcy, 1956–57)
With others
* Kenny Dorham, Jazz Contrasts (Riverside, 1957)
* Art Farmer, Early Art (New Jazz, 1954)
* Babs Gonzales, Weird Lullaby (Blue Note/Capitol, 1949)
* Ernie Henry, Last Chorus (Riverside, 1956)
* Abbey Lincoln, That's Him! (Riverside, 1957)
* The Modern Jazz Quartet, The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2 (Atlantic, 1959)
* Fats Navarro, The Fabulous Fats Navarro (Blue Note, 1949)
* Bud Powell, The Amazing Bud Powell (Blue Note, 1949)
* The Rolling Stones, Tattoo You (Rolling Stones Records, 1981)
* McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, and Al Foster, Milestone Jazzstars in Concert (Milestone, 1978)