Sonny Rollins on what jazz is

Back on September 7th, we celebrated the 91st birthday of the legendary jazz tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins.  Here is an interview with him, about his ideas of what jazz and art are.  

Sonny Rollins will go down in history as not only the single most enduring tenor saxophonist of the bebop and hard bop era, but also as one of the greatest contemporary jazz saxophonists of them all. His fluid and harmonically innovative ideas, effortless manner, and easily identifiable and accessible sound have influenced generations of performers, but have also fueled the notion that mainstream jazz music can be widely enjoyed, recognized, and proliferated. Saxophone Colossus https://amzn.to/2R53uAl Way Out West https://amzn.to/2CVzMe2 The Bridge https://amzn.to/2S0MYCB A Night at the Village Vanguard https://amzn.to/2CVk3vx Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins https://amzn.to/2PJMdfw Tenor Madness https://amzn.to/2R54hkN Freedom Suite https://amzn.to/2CVkaHt Don’t Stop the Carnival https://amzn.to/2NQFRt6 The Sound of Sonny https://amzn.to/2CVkZ31 Sonny Rollins Omnibook https://amzn.to/2CVKWzu Sonny Rolins Transcriptions https://amzn.to/2CVzbZW