Sonny Rollins' big-hearted music speaks for itself on newly reissued 'Freedom Weaver' In 1959, Rollins was a few years into one of the great hot streaks in jazz history when he took a three-week ...

Sonny Rollins’s sound is as uncapturable as it is memorable, so you’re left with nothing to do except to keep on listening. In the same way that, ...

Sonny Rollins is the last living progenitor of jazz’s make-it-new ascent during the 20th century. Like many of his peers, Rollins has at various times been both inside and outside of history’s ...

Sonny Rollins is, as the title of his 1957 album says, a “Saxophone Colossus.” Indefatigable in improvisation, uncorrupted in artistry, and always swinging and melodious, Mr. Rollins (b. 1930 ...

For the early life of Sonny Rollins, turn to Aaron Levy’s mammoth biography, Saxophone Colossus (Hachette Books, 2022). Levy spends three hundred pages on Rollins’ life before he drops out and ...

Rollins, at the golden age of 93, is still very much with us. His archives are at the New York Public Library. These archives include, Reese writes, “a hefty six boxes” of his personal notebooks.

Sonny Rollins with Don Cherry and Henry Grimes at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Jan. 17, 1963. Courtesy of The Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research and Inger Stjerna ...