ROLLINS: Thank you. GROSS: My interview with Sonny Rollins was recorded in 1994. Today is his 90th birthday. I send my best birthday wishes to Sonny Rollins and thank him for our interview and for ...

Sonny Rollins used to rent an apartment ... But it was a stupid thing. It wasn't the best time to play a wind instrument." Rollins, 76, is considered by many to be the greatest living jazz improviser.

Any concert by Sonny Rollins, the great unflagging sovereign ... And during the jubilant encore inevitably, “St. Thomas,” Mr. Rollins’s best-loved calypso they welcomed all of the ...

You can say one thing about Sonny Rollins: He has an impressive ... he chose not to play). Rollins was at his best in the ballads -- especially “They Say It’s Wonderful” and “A Nightingale ...

The New York Times’ guide to the 100 most important jazz recordings states that in the late 1950s the two top tenor saxophonists were Sonny ... earned Rollins a Grammy for Best Instrumental ...

When you consider that critics have been writing about him for over 60 years, it can seem as if there's nothing left to say about Sonny Rollins. But there is – because over the decades ...

Growing up in 1940s Harlem, Sonny Rollins idolized swing-era heavyweights like Coleman Hawkins and jump-blues saxophonists like Louis Jordan. But when he heard Charlie Parker and the torrid ...