During the next three years he composed three of his best-known tunes, "Oleo," "Doxy," and "Airegin," and continued to work with Davis, Charlie Parker, and others.
She played further "doxy" roles in Waterloo Road, The Rake's Progress and The Wicked Lady (all 1945).
"Foxy," which bears an even goofier approximation of that cover image — inflatable cactus, beach ball, bikini — lays out a marathon extemporization on the 16-bar form used by Mr. Rollins in "Doxy," one of his signature themes.
Among his best-known concert works are "Doxology Opera: The Doxy Canticles" (2001), a gritty sung drama of race and morality with a libretto by Paul Carter Harrison, and "Runagate, Runagate" (1989), a setting of Robert E. Hayden's poem about a fugitive slave.
Even better is the moment when he is asked by his pneumatic doxy whether he prefers eating or making love: Corden's broad features become a study in concentration before he replies, "Tough one that, innit".
Neil Spencer Sonny Rollins Sonny, Please (Doxy Records) £12.99 Rollins is like a force of nature.
She might easily have mugged up the doxy part ("my smock-rampant") but often looks slightly askance at the boys' business.
The one false note in a magnificent performance is Sher's tearful breakdown at parting from his doxy, Doll Tearsheet: nothing has prepared us for this unexpected display of genuine emotion.
Or perhaps in the arms of some wanton doxy in Wapping?
Thomas," "Sonnymoon for Two," "Oleo," "Doxy," and "Airegin" are among the mainstays of the art form, and, on the soundtrack of the movie "Alfie," it's Rollins's compositions that play the leading musical role.
The works shown that were not New York premieres were "Doxy," "All Blues" and 'Interplay".
