Sonny Rollins, towering jazz innovator known as 'Saxophone Colossus,' dies at 95

Sonny Rollins, the fiercely inventive tenor saxophonist whose decades-spanning career helped define modern jazz and earned him the nickname 'Saxophone Colossus,' died Monday at his home in upstate New York, according to a statement posted to his social media accounts. He was 95.

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