Sonny Rollins

Theodore Walter “Sonny” Rollins is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including “St. Thomas”, “Oleo”, “Doxy”, and “Airegin”, have become jazz standards. #

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  • . . .this is my dilemma. I?m a guy who makes things up as I go along so nothing is ever finished-there are so many layers. So when you solo, yeah, you might get into one thing, but then, hey, everything has implications! You can hear the next level. And that?s how I feel about improvising-there?s always another level. ∞

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