Sonny Fortune

Sonny Fortune ( born May 19, 1939 in Philadelphia ) is an American jazz musician ( alto and soprano saxophone, flute).

Fortune studied at the Wurlitzer and Granoo School of Music. He then worked at the local level with rhythm and blues groups. In 1967 he went to New York City where he played with Elvin Jones. In 1968 he joined the group for two years Mongo Santamaría before to 1973, he worked with vocalist Leon Thomas, and from 1971 with McCoy Tyner. He then worked with Roy Brooks, Buddy Rich and Miles Davis, to the Get Up with It sessions he worked and with whom he was on an international tour. With Davis was born in 1975 in Osaka, the live album Pangaea. In addition, Fortune has played with George Benson, Rabih Abou- Khalil, Roy Ayers, Oliver Nelson, Nat Adderley, Barbara Dennerlein and Pharoah Sanders, but also led his own groups, for example, where Kirk Lightsey or Kenny Barron played.

Fortune is a strong soloist with outstanding technology and creative vitality, however, has never brought it to a greater awareness. After the Jazz Rough Guide he may play as a sideman more interesting posts than in his own projects.

Discography

  • Awakening ( 1975)
  • Waves of Dreams (1975 )
  • With Sound Reason (1979 )
  • Four In One ( 1994)
  • From Now On (1996 )
  • In the Spirit of John Coltrane (2000)

Lexical entries

  • Ian Carr et al: Rough Guide Jazz. Metzler, Stuttgart 1999; ISBN 3-476-01584- X
  • Jazz saxophonist
  • Jazz flutist
  • American musician
  • Born in 1939
  • Man
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