5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sonny Rollins
Walter Theodore Rollins: the “saxophone colossus.” Jazz’s Prometheus, its Siddhartha and its heavyweight champ. Or, as Nate Chinen once put it in a New York Times review of one of Rollins’s marathon-like concerts, “the great unflagging sovereign of the tenor saxophone.” Growing up in 1940s Harlem, Sonny Rollins idolized swing-era …
