It’s been announced that Sonny Rollins, saxophone colossus and one of the giants of 20th century jazz has died. He was 95.
His passing was announced on his website yesterday (May 25) with “deep sorrow and profound love”, together with a quote from the man himself, from 2009, reflecting on mortality: “I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I’m a person who believes this life isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything. A spiritual person doesn’t feel like that.”
