Sonny Rollins

USA

Born: 07 September 1930

Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Jazz, International

Styles: Bop, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Mainstream Jazz, New Orleans/Classic Jazz

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Sonny Rollins will go down in history as not only the single most enduring tenor saxophonist of the bebop and hard bop era, but also the greatest contemporary jazz saxophonist of them all. His fluid and harmonically innovative ideas, effortless manner, and easily identifiable and accessible sound have influenced generations of performers, but have also fueled the notion that mainstream jazz music can be widely enjoyed, recognized, and proliferated. Born Theodore Walter Rollins in New York City on September 7, 1930, he had an older brother who p...

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