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Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

byAidan Levy

The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Drawing on biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, the narrative gives Saxophone Colossus a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the life and music of sonny rollins becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within biography & autobiography. Saxophone Colossus ultimately offers a nuanced guide to the evidence, the human stakes, and the consequences that make this subject worth revisiting.

Publisher

Hachette Books

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

772

ISBN

9780306902796