saxophone colossus

Legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, born and raised in New York City, is dead at age 95. The jazz legend, nicknamed the "saxophone colossus,” died Monday, May 25 at his home in Woodstock. Credit: Tom Beetz Throughout…

In 1986, Bob Mugge, the foremost documentarian of music giants, decided to make a film about jazz’s greatest living improviser, the “Saxophone Colossus” himself, Sonny Rollins. Prior to tackling the mighty Rollins, Mugge…