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Sonny Rollins, legendary saxophone colossus, dead at 95

Saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who spent more than two years practising in solitude as a young man on a windswept New York bridge to reinvent his playing and โ become one of the giants of jazz, died at the โ age of 95 on Monday, his publicist said. Rollins had recorded the confidently titled Jazz Colossus album โ in 1956. But the saxophonist remained wracked with self-doubt. So, in the summer of 1959, he began to play on the windswept pedestrian walkway of New Yorkโ€™s Williamsburg Bridge. Initially a...