{"id":51267,"date":"2026-05-26T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=51267"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:00:13","slug":"jazz-legend-and-musical-pioneer-dies-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=51267","title":{"rendered":"Jazz legend and musical pioneer dies at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sonny Rollins \u2014 the towering saxophone legend whose sound reshaped modern jazz \u2014 has died at the age of 95.<\/strong>The iconic musician passed away Monday afternoon at his home in Woodstock, New York, according to a statement released by his publicist, Terri Hinte, according to\u00a0Rolling Stone.No official cause of death was revealed. But even in death, Rollins left behind words that reflected the spirituality and depth that defined both his music and his life.\u201cI think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I\u2019m a person who believes this life isn\u2019t the be-all and end-all of everything. A spiritual person doesn\u2019t feel like that.\u201dKnown around the world as the \u201cSaxophone Colossus,\u201d Rollins was more than a jazz musician \u2014 he was a revolutionary force whose improvisation changed the language of music forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born Walter Theodore Rollins in Harlem in 1930 to parents of Virgin Islands heritage, Sonny Rollins was surrounded by rich Caribbean culture and music from an early age. As a child, he discovered the saxophone \u2014 and the connection was instant.\u201cMy mother gave me my first saxophone, an alto saxophone, when I was 7 years old. I got the saxophone and I went into the bedroom and I started playing \u2014 that was it,\u201d Rollins once recalled. \u201cI was in seventh heaven.\u201dBy his teenage years, he was already playing alongside future jazz greats and quickly became one of the brightest young talents of the bebop movement, sharing stages and recording sessions with legends including Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonny Rollins \u2014 the towering saxophone legend whose sound reshaped modern jazz \u2014 has died at the age of 95.The iconic musician passed away Monday afternoon at&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":51268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":34,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51269,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51267\/revisions\/51269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}