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Sonny Rollins, legendary saxophone colossus, dead at 95
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Sonny Rollins, legendary jazz saxophonist who famously practised in solitude on the Williamsburg Bridge to refine his craft, has died at age 95.
Sonny Rollins, legendary saxophone colossus, dead at 95
Saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who spent more than two years practising in solitude as a young man on a windswept New York bridge to reinvent his playing and become one of the giants of jazz, died at the age of 95 on Monday, his publicist said.
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...
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