Sonny Rollins, the “saxophone colossus” who was widely considered America’s greatest living jazz musician and whose musical eloquence and inventiveness kept him at the creative forefront of jazz for six decades, died May 25 at his home in Woodstock, New York. He was 95.
His death was announced in a statement shared by his publicist, Terri Hinte. Mr. Rollins had stopped performing more than a decade ago because of pulmonary fibrosis.
