Sonny Rollins obituary (opens in new tab)

One of the great American jazz saxophonists regarded as an improvising genius by fans all over the worldThe flyers for his shows often called the saxophonist Sonny Rollins “the greatest living improviser”. On the face of it, that statement appeared to collide with the evidence, because many of the elements of a Rollins gig were repeated from one show to another.But you had to listen beyond the themes of favourite Rollins vehicles such as , and to hear why he was an improvising genius whose wo...