BOOK/MAGAZINE: Sonny Rollins: The Colossus Speaks

One of America's greatest musical treasures reflects on jazz, and the good life I learned jazz as a little boy. My guess is that I was about 2 or 3 years old when I heard people like Fats Waller and jazz bands on the radio. They'd be broadcast from the Apollo Theater and around the country with other guys, but it was basically Fats I listened to. He was also from Harlem. I was born there, and I gleaned a lot from there. It was in the air somehow. There was so much jazz in that community it ru...

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