Rock

April, 1997

For the 25 years he's recorded on Milestone, tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins has frustrated many who consider him our premiere living jazz musician. He's been accused of settling for inconsistent albums. Personally, I have enjoyed many of them. But I'm grateful for Milestone's two-CD retrospective Silver City, in which Rollins--with some advice from a frustrated admirer (Gary Giddins)--picks two-and-a-half hours of great performances to celebrate his silver anniversary at the label. Rollins is o...