Goodbye to Sonny Rollins, the jazz legend

Sonny Rollinsil “Saxophone Colossus“, whose energetic yet fluid and meditative works had made him the last representative of a golden age of jazz greats, died on Monday. He was 95. “It is with deep sorrow and immense affection that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins“, we read in a post published on his social page, which adds that “he died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, New York”.

The end of a chapter in American music

With Rollins’ death, an essential chapter of twentieth-century American music closes. No other saxophonist has managed to blend strength and introspection so naturally: his sound could burst forth as a public statement or retreat into an almost private meditation.

From the Parker era to funk and soul influences

New Yorker, Theodore Walter Rollins, the last living giant of the era of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Rollins transformed jazz improvisation into a form of moral autobiography. In the second part of his career he left room for youthful passions, inserting funk and soul taste, which with him added a new dimension to jazz.