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\n\tTenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the \u201cSaxophone Colossus\u201d who was schooled by bebop\u2019s legends as a prized sideman and became their peer as a formidable leader, improviser and composer, has died, according to a social media post from his family. No cause of death was cited; he was 95. <\/p>\n

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\n\tSporting a burly tone, a tart sense of instrumental humor and keen melodic and harmonic ingenuity, Rollins was acknowledged as a jazz voice as groundbreaking as that of his friend and contemporary John Coltrane, with whom he unforgettably locked horns on \u201cTenor Madness\u201d in 1956.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe penned such now-standard entries in the jazz book as \u201cAiregin,\u201d \u201cDoxy,\u201d \u201cOleo\u201d and \u201cSt. Thomas,\u201d the last of which was a calypso adaptation (one of several he recorded) that reflected his family\u2019s Caribbean origins. He sported an all-encompassing knowledge of the standard repertoire, and could wring highly personalized statements from such unlikely vehicles as \u201cToot, Toot, Tootsie.\u201d One of his most celebrated albums, 1957\u2019s \u201cWay Out West,\u201d was built around his interpretations of cowboy songs.<\/p>\n

\n\tImposing, customarily taciturn and somewhat eccentric \u2014 he shaved his hair into a Mohawk style during the \u201960s, long before punk fashion adopted it \u2014 the musician nicknamed \u201cNewk\u201d (after a resemblance to major league pitcher Don Newcombe) looked askance at the limelight, and took two protracted hiatuses from recording and performing at the height of his powers.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the course of a career that stretched back to the late 1940s, his stature was acknowledged with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Honors and a National Medal of Arts.<\/p>\n

\n\tCalling him \u201can invincible presence\u201d on the 50th anniversary of his professional debut, critic Gary Giddins said Rollins was \u201cone of the most cunning, surprising and original of jazz visionaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe was born Theodore Walter Rollins in New York\u2019s Harlem neighborhood. He began playing piano and then alto saxophone, finally taking up the tenor horn in emulation of his boyhood idol Coleman Hawkins, who lived in his neighborhood. He learned his jazz craft at Benjamin Franklin High in East Harlem, and played alongside such future stars as altoist Jackie McLean, pianist Kenny Drew and drummer Art Taylor. Through a classmate, he met pianist-composer Thelonious Monk, whose angular, puckish compositions would have an impact on his own work.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe made his recording debut at 18 in 1949 for Prestige Records in a band led by trombonist J.J. Johnson. In quick succession, he cut dates with pianist Bud Powell, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Monk and trumpeter Miles Davis, who recorded three of Rollins\u2019 compositions at a 1954 session.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn spite of the attention his early work attracted in such glittering hard bop company, Rollins recorded only intermittently in the early \u201950s, for \u2014 like many other young jazzmen who fell under the spell of star bebop altoist and notorious drug addict Charlie Parker \u2014 he had acquired a debilitating heroin habit.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe was arrested and jailed on drug charges in 1950 and for parole violation in 1953. At a \u201953 Miles Davis date that paired him with Parker, the bop elder himself urged the young musician to clean up. In late 1954, he checked into the federal drug facility in Lexington, Kentucky, where he kicked his habit.<\/p>\n

\n\tRollins\u2019 career took off in earnest in 1955 when he joined the august quintet led by trumpeter Clifford Brown and drummer Max Roach (who later appeared on a Prestige date led by the saxophonist). The year 1956 saw his breakout as a leader: He fronted Miles Davis\u2019 working band (minus the trumpeter) on the Prestige album \u201cTenor Madness,\u201d which featured the titular battle with Coltrane, and recorded \u201cSaxophone Colossus,\u201d which contained the lengthy, brilliantly imagined blues improvisation \u201cBlue 7,\u201d hailed by such critics as Gunther Schuller and Martin Williams as a jazz high water mark.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also recorded for Blue Note during this period, making a mark with two volumes of \u201cA Night at the Village Vanguard,\u201d drawn from a pair of forceful trio sets with cut with two different rhythm sections in November 1957 at the noted New York club.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs his star continued to rise, Rollins notably recorded for a pair of West Coast-based labels, Orrin Keepnews\u2019 Riverside and Lester Koenig\u2019s Contemporary. His work for the former company included sideman duty on Monk\u2019s \u201cBrilliant Corners\u201d (1956) and a storming trio session, \u201cFreedom Suite\u201d (1958). His Contemporary sides included \u201cWay Out West\u201d and \u201cSonny Rollins Meets the Contemporary Leaders\u201d (1958), a satisfying collaboration with such California players as Barney Kessel and Hampton Hawes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe spotlight grew too hot, however, and after the latter date Rollins dropped out of sight for nearly three years. He exercised and woodshedded, and a story in Metronome magazine revealed that he could be seen and heard playing on New York\u2019s Williamsburg Bridge. <\/p>\n

\n\tA 1977 television commercial for Pioneer Electronics featured Rollins performing on the bridge and re-enacting that period, although it mistook the Williamsburg Bridge for the Brooklyn Bridge. <\/p>\n

\n\tHe later told the New Yorker\u2019s Whitney Balliett, \u201cI found it\u2019s a superb place to practice. Night or day. You\u2019re up over the whole world. You can look down on the whole scene. There is the skyline, the water, the harbor. It\u2019s a beautiful scene, a panoramic scene\u2026You can blow as loud as you want. It makes you think. The grandeur gives you perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUpon emerging from his sabbatical, Rollins was signed to the major RCA Records in a rare, and uncommonly lucrative, deal for a jazz performer. His first two albums for the label, \u201cThe Bridge\u201d and \u201cWhat\u2019s New?\u201d (both 1962), were energetic and uncommonly lyrical affairs that featured the hushed guitar work of Jim Hall. The LPs also commenced his empathetic association with bassist Bob Cranshaw, who appeared on Rollins\u2019 albums for the next half-century.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his time off, Rollins had clearly cocked an ear to the roaring \u201cnew thing\u201d of such exploratory musicians as Coltrane and altoist Ornette Coleman, and in the summer of 1962 he recorded a live album, \u201cOur Man in Jazz,\u201d at New York\u2019s Village Gate with trumpeter Don Cherry and drummer Billy Higgins of Coleman\u2019s group.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhile Rollins more than held his own in this rarefied company, his exploration of the \u201cfree jazz\u201d terrain proved short-lived. His other, more conservative but still expressive sets for RCA comprised a joint project with Coleman Hawkins, a recital of familiar bop tunes and a collection of standards.<\/p>\n

\n\tA three-album stint for Impulse! Records followed; it was highlighted by \u201cAlfie\u201d (1966), a U.S. studio re-creation of the score he had composed and recorded with British sidemen for the soundtrack of Lewis Gilbert\u2019s drama starring Michael Caine.<\/p>\n

\n\tRollins dropped out of sight again for another six years, to practice meditation and Eastern spiritual disciplines. He emerged again in 1972, when he began an association with Milestone Records that ran for nearly 30 years. While not entirely unrewarding, his time with the label found him working not always comfortably in electric settings; numbers like 1979\u2019s \u201cDisco Monk\u201d did little to burnish his reputation.<\/p>\n

\n\tNonetheless, in 1981 he made a surprisingly fulfilling guest shot on the Rolling Stones\u2019 album \u201cTattoo You,\u201d contributing a breathtaking solo on the band\u2019s \u201cWaiting for a Friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1986, filmmaker Robert Mugge released a documentary profile of Rollins, aptly titled \u201cSaxophone Colossus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his latter-day eminence, Rollins received a pair of Grammy Awards: His 2000 collection \u201cThis Is What I Do\u201d was named best jazz instrumental album, while his playing on \u201cWhy Was I Born?\u201d \u2014 from \u201cWithout a Song,\u201d a live date cut shortly after the 9\/11 attacks \u2014 was honored as best jazz instrumental solo.<\/p>\n

\n\tRollins, who lived near the World Trade Center in New York at the time, achieved a different kind of fame in the days after the 9\/11 attack when CNN broadcast footage of him, horn in hand, and his neighbors waiting to be evacuated; ironically, the newscasters didn\u2019t recognize him but\u00a0some viewers did.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI heard a big\u00a0pow<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 I didn\u2019t know what it was, but of course I found out a few minutes later,\u201d Rollins told Variety<\/em> in 2021. \u201cI was living on the top floor, I think it was the 39th, and I went downstairs and everyone was on the street watching it all, completely in shock. These things like snowflakes began raining down \u2014 it was some kind of toxic stuff coming from the buildings.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen we were evacuated the next day, I had my horn with me,\u201d he continues. \u201cPeople were looking at me strangely, because with all the police and ambulances and trucks and the army, it was like a World War II movie \u2014 and here\u2019s me, this guy in a beret with a saxophone.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIronically, he nearly skipped the concert \u2014 in Boston, four nights after 9\/11 \u2014\u00a0that won him the Grammy. \u201cI told my wife, \u2018I\u2019m too messed up to make it,\u2019 because along with everything else, I\u2019d had to walk down 39 flights of stairs when we were evacuated,\u201d he recalled to Variety.<\/em> \u201cBut she said, \u2018No, no \u2014 you must!\u2019 And I\u2019m glad she persuaded me, because there were other musicians from New York there, and the audience was very happy we did it. I think we sort of brought back a little sanity in the middle of all that madness.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2008, he founded his own imprint, Doxy Records, which documented several of his live performances, including one in tandem with Ornette Coleman.<\/p>\n

\n\tRollins may have received the greatest attention of his latter-day career in 2014, when the New Yorker\u2019s \u201cShouts & Murmurs\u201d column ran a brief mock \u201cprofile,\u201d unidentified as fiction, of the tenor player that featured fabricated quotes condemning jazz as art and lifestyle.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe jazz community went up in arms about the piece, which was quickly and apologetically relabeled as humor in the magazine\u2019s Web edition. In an online video interview conducted in his home, Rollins himself called the story \u201cscurrilous,\u201d and compared it to something one might find in Mad magazine \u2014 to which, he said, he subscribed.<\/p>\n

\n\tRollins continued to perform regularly into the 2010s, but he was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis and suffered respiratory issues that ultimately forced his retirement. His last public performance took place in 2012 at the Detroit Jazz Festival and officially stopped playing saxophone two years later. However, he made an appearance as himself on a 2013 episode of \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d that also featured Tony Bennett.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his later years, he received a National Medal of Arts from former president Barack Obama, a Kennedy Center Honor, and a honorary degree from the Julliard School in New York. His 1962 album \u201cThe Bridge\u201d was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2023, he sold the rights to his publishing and recorded music to Reservoir Media for an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n

\n\tRollins is survived by his nephew Clifton Anderson and his nieces Vallyn Anderson and Gabrielle DeGroat. His second wife Lucille, to whom he was married for nearly 40 years, died in 2004. <\/p>\n

\n\tNo public memorial is planned at this time, according to the announcement. <\/p>\n

\n\tRollins said in 2009, \u201cI think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I\u2019m a person who believes this life isn\u2019t the be-all and end-all of everything. A spiritual person doesn\u2019t feel like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nAdditional reporting by Jem Aswad.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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