Variety ·entertainment ·2 hours ago

Sonny Rollins, Jazz’s ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ Dies at 95

Sonny Rollins, the tenor saxophonist known as the "Saxophone Colossus," died at 95, his family announced. The jazz innovator composed standards including "Airegin," "Doxy" and "St. Thomas," and recorded the landmark 1957 album "Way Out West." Rollins earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Kennedy Center Honors during a career spanning from the late 1940s.

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