50 great moments in jazz: The rise of saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins

Though he had recorded with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, it was from early 1956 that Sonny Rollins really took off …When the magic of jazz first touched me in the late 1960s, many pathfinding early creators of the music, including Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, were still playing. Now, hardly any living links remain to the music's formative decades - but Sonny Rollins, the 80-year-old tenor saxophonist from New York, is an extraordinary exception.Rollins remai...

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