Sonny Rollins (1930–2026) was an American jazz musician who was among the finest improvisers on the tenor saxophone to appear since the mid-1950s. He recorded with such artists as Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Max Roach. Rollins’s best-known tunes include “Oleo,” “Doxy,” “Airegin,” and “Blue 7.” His masterpiece is generally regarded to be his 1956 album Saxophone Colossus.
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