Fresh Air · 2026-05-29 · 51 min · 6,197 words

Remembering jazz giant Sonny Rollins

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I'm David B. and Cooley. Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins died Monday. He was 95 years old. For decades he had been hailed as the greatest living jazz musician.

Today, we're going to listen to Terry's 1994 interview with Sonny Rollins. But first, we have this appreciation from jazz historian Kevin Whitehead. He says no figure in jazz was more universally revered. Wagon wheels, old cowboy song written for Broadway's Ziegfeld follies of 1934. It's from the album Way Out West, an excellent introduction to a few things that made Sonny Rollins great,

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