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Bookmark or Share- Sonny RollinsWelcome to the official website of Sonny Rollins, an American tenor saxophonist and composer whose eight-decade career has led him from Harlem to the White House and all over the world, and who is considered one of the most influential musicians in jazz.
- Sonny Rollins | Biography & Facts | BritannicaSonny Rollins (born September 7, 1930, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American jazz musician, a tenor saxophonist who is among the finest improvisers on the instrument to appear since the mid-1950s. Rollins grew up in a neighborhood where Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins (his early idol), and Bud Powell were playing.
- Saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins remains an elder statesman of jazzSaxophone giant Sonny Rollins was born Sept. 7, 1930. His relentless pursuit of greatness — as a musician, and as a person — has made a huge impact on jazz.
- Sonny Rollins - WikipediaWalter Theodore " Sonny " Rollins[1][2] (born September 7, 1930) [3] is an American retired jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. [3][4] In a seven-decade career, Rollins has recorded over sixty albums as a leader.
- Sonny Rollins Is at Peace. But He Regrets Trying to One-Up Coltrane ...Sonny Rollins is, by any reasonable estimation, a genius. He is jazz’s greatest living improviser, able to imbue his solos with wry humor, surprise, brilliant logical form and profound emotion.
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