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Sonny Rollins has died, one of the greatest saxophonists in jazz history and a central figure in hard bop. At 80, he retired due to health problems.
The world of music is in mourning. Sonny Rollins, the legendary tenor saxophonist known for his bold sound and constant experimentation, died at the age of 95. His spokesperson confirmed his death in his home in Woodstock, New York. Rollins was a venerated figure in jazz, celebrated for his improvisational abilities and his influence, alongside giants like John Coltrane and Charlie Parker.
Despite his success, he often took breaks to explore new styles, considering himself “a work in continuous evolution.” Rollins won numerous Grammy Awards and continued to perform until his 80s, when health problems forced him to retire. He leaves behind an inheritance of innovation and inspiration.
The musician, born Theodore Walter Rollins on September 7, 1930, in Harlem, died in his Woodstock home in New York State at the age of 95. Considered a true innovator of the tenor sax, Rollins transformed improvisation into a personal, free, and unpredictable narrative form. His compositions – “St. Thomas,” “Oleo,” “Doxy,” “Airegin,” and “Pent-Up House” – became absolute standards of modern jazz, studied and reinterpreted by generations of musicians around the world. The artist was nicknamed “Saxophone Colossus” after his celebrated 1956 album, considered one of the absolute masterpieces of jazz history.
Born and raised in Harlem, the heart of African-American culture, Rollins breathed music from his earliest years. He lived just a few blocks from the Savoy Ballroom and the Apollo Theatre, in a neighborhood where jazz was an integral part of daily life. His parents, immigrants from the Virgin Islands, instilled in him a love for Caribbean rhythms that would profoundly influence his style. As a young man, he began to study piano and alto saxophone, but at sixteen, he definitively switched to tenor saxophone, fascinated by the powerful sound of Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Parker’s bebop revolution. In the Sugar Hill neighborhood, he frequented young people destined to become major figures in jazz, such as Jackie McLean, Kenny Drew, and Art Taylor.
Sonny Rollins established himself on the jazz scene with breathtaking speed, thanks to his masterful technique and a melodic vein of rare originality. Even in his very young age, he performed on stages alongside giants such as Bud Powell, J. J. Johnson, and Miles Davis. The meeting with the legendary Thelonious Monk, who welcomed him as his own student and guided his musical maturation, decisively marked his artistic path. Monk’s influence left an indelible mark on the young saxophonist, teaching him the ability to decompose melodies and build solos with fragmented breaths, rich in surprises and unexpected tension. From that school emerged an unmistakable style: powerful yet lyrical, ironic yet rigorous, capable of effortlessly switching from popular music quotations to elaborate harmonic architectures in a matter of moments.
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Sonny Rollins has died, the “greatest improviser”: farewell to the jazz legend saxophonist.
Just as we are celebrating around the world what today would have been the 100th birthday of Miles Davis, another giant of jazz music passes away. Sonny Rollins was the last great representative of bebop, a sacred monster of that fantastic era of improvisers between the 1950s and 1960s. But he had been much more, much more, an innovative and fantastic live musician until the early 2000s. He was 95 years old and died in Woodstock, New York. He had become the “best living improviser” in the scene.
He was born in Harlem, New York, in September 1930, Walter Theodore Rollins by name, the son of a couple originally from the American Virgin Islands. A family of musicians: his father played the clarinet, his brother the violin, and his sister the piano. He had also started with the piano before being fascinated, at the age of 11, by the saxophone. He initially chose the alto, later the tenor like his idol Coleman Hawkins. He was still very young when he began to record with Bud Powell and Miles Davis, before joining the formation of Thelonious Monk, with whom he recorded Brilliant Corners. With John Coltrane he recorded Tenor Madness: they were those to give him the scepter of the most influential and popular saxophonist in jazz music.
From 1956, Saxophone Colossus, a fundamental album for hard bop in which, with the standard St. Thomas, he honored the origins of his parents, inspired by calypso. In Way Out West and A Night at the Village he experimented with the formula with the trio without piano, in 1959 he temporarily withdrew from the scene, spending 14 or 15 hours a day improvising on the pedestrian walkway of the Williamsburg Bridge, in New York. This is how the album The Bridge (1962) was born. The 1960s were the years of free jazz, of contamination with Asian culture, the discovery of Zen Buddhism and a new retreat until the 1970s.
When he returned, he received a Guggenheim fellowship and began to perform in major concert halls. He had achieved the status of a living legend, an icon with his afro hairstyle and sunglasses. He also recorded three solos on the Rolling Stones album Tattoo. He has recorded over 60 albums, he was awarded two Grammys for This is What I Do in 2001 and for the solo in Why Was I Born? from the live album Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert. The President of the United States, Barack Obama, awarded him the National Humanities Medal. Rollins, in a very long career, had recovered the bebop tradition of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and that of African American music between blues and gospel.
He had married Lucille in 1965, who became his manager, dying in 2004. Rollins, like many artists of that time, also suffered from abuse and heroin addiction, which almost compromised his career at the beginning of the 1950s, with a dramatic setback. He was arrested, twice, for armed robbery and violation of probation. He detoxed in a health facility in Lexington, Kentucky.
His spokesperson, Terri Hinte, announced the death, stating that Rollins had been forced to stay at home for some time due to pulmonary fibrosis. He had given his last concert in 2012 – one of the last at the popular Italian festival Umbria Jazz – and stopped playing in 2014. For that phase of his free and obsessive outdoor improvisation in New York, also captured in the character “Bleeding Gums” from The Simpsons, for years a movement asked that the Williamsburg Bridge be named after him.
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