The Sonny Rollins Omnibook celebrates the bebop legend that worked with Miles, Monk, MJQ, and many others. His solo work has earned him many accolades, including Grammy Awards, election into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Edward MacDowell Medal, and the Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. Well 3 1/2 stars - Rollins as leader and sideman - No ballads. The omission of There Are Such Things is glaring. I got the opening chorus personally transcribed.

Great review. I particularly enjoyed the quote from Charlie Shoemake: '.He (Sonny) exemplified the most creative, in-depth mastery of the basic three elements of music: melody, rhythm and harmony. Sonny has mastered his craft to the point that his improvisations are completely free of any restriction but still maintain the basic structure of the song.' Succinct and astute.

It's too bad that this wasn't published many years sooner. I haven't seen the book yet, but I wonder how the transcriptions compare to those of Andrew White's (most notable for his Coltrane transcriptions). Thanks for the heads up. Sounds great. I heard about it from Charlie Shoemake and ordered it from Amazon.co.uk back in January. The delivery date keeps getting pushed back, but maybe I will finally get it soon.

I had hoped that the solo list would include 'Softly As In a Morning Sunrise' but it seems it isn't included - does anyone else have it? Still, the 1959 version of 'There will Never Be Another You' came on my iPhone yesterday on random play and that will be great to see transcribed. Cmos vlsi vtu notes cbcs. He was at his absolute peak at that period and made some great trio records.

Thanks for the review. The Sonny Rollins Omnibook was transcribed by Chris “Doc” Stewart who was a student of Charlie Shoemake. There are some great paragraphs on the second page of the book where Chris writes about how he studied with Charlie Shoemake and Charlie would use Sonny Rollins transcriptions with Chris in their lessons. It's a shame that the transcriber doesn't get named on the cover of the book.

Rhys Thanks, Rhys. I am also interested in learning about the other books, but from what you and Steve share, I can hope there is similar credit given in them as well.

I am recalling that Tim Price did a Cannonball Adderley book of transcriptions, and wondering if it is in this series.