Sonny Rollins, saxophone ‘colossus’ dies 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 become one of the giants of jazz, has died at the age of 95.

Rollins had recorded the confidently titled Jazz Colossus album in 1956. But the…