Saxophonist Sonny Rollins has outlasted many of the jazz greats he played with. At age 76, he's now jazz's elder statesman, ... He has also battled health problems. Rollins is 76 now, ...

Levy says that’s because Rollins always wanted to improve not only his musicianship technically, but his intellectual, physical, spiritual, and emotional health. Part of the legend of Sonny ...

After 7 Decades, Sonny Rollins Can't Get Music Off His Mind The legendary saxophonist, ... Well, Christian, I had a little health issue and it sort of got me away from playing.

One of the last in a generation of jazz greats, Sonny Rollins once thought music could change the world. His optimism about humanity has since vanished but, at 85, he still has much he wants to say.

Sonny worked on his mental, physical, and spiritual health, because he believed that a holistic process of self-searching and self-improvement was all part of becoming an evolved musician.

Throughout his legendary career, Sonny Rollins has used his tenor saxophone to help redefine jazz. Now, at 81, he's become a Kennedy Center honoree.

You can say one thing about Sonny Rollins: He has an impressive work ethic. His performance Wednesday at Walt Disney Concert Hall was a more than 90-minute jazz extravaganza, propulsively driven ...

Rollins, 80, has been playing sax since he was 7. “That feeling that I had then is still here with me today,” he says. “I still enjoy and get into that musical sphere with the same ...

In 1959, Rollins was a few years into one of the great hot streaks in jazz history when he took a three-week trip to Europe. Three hours from that tour are heard on a new Rollins-approved reissue.

On Dec. 17, 1951, Sonny Rollins entered a studio for his first session as bandleader. The tenor saxophonist, then 21 years old, had already recorded with the likes of Miles Davis. Within days, and ...