Sonny Rollins, Influential Jazz Saxophone Musician, Dies at 95
May 25 (Reuters) – Sonny Rollins had recorded the confidently titled “Jazz Colossus” album in 1956. But the saxophonist remained wracked with self-doubt. So, in the summer of 1959, he began to play on the windswept pedestrian walkway of New York’s Williamsburg Bridge. Initially a place where he could avoid disturbing his pregnant neighbor, the […]
May 25 (Reuters) – Sonny Rollins had recorded the confidently titled “Jazz Colossus” album in 1956. But the saxophonist remained wracked with self-doubt. So, in the summer of 1959, he began to play on the windswept pedestrian walkway of New York’s Williamsburg Bridge. Initially a place where he could avoid disturbing his pregnant neighbor, the…
May 25 (Reuters) – Sonny Rollins had recorded the confidently titled “Jazz Colossus” album in 1956. But the saxophonist remained wracked with self-doubt. So, in the summer of 1959, he began to play on the windswept pedestrian walkway of New York’s Williamsburg Bridge. Initially a place where he could avoid disturbing his pregnant neighbor, the […]
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