{"id":14225,"date":"2026-05-25T14:19:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14225"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:25:11","slug":"sonny-rollins-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/25\/sonny-rollins-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Rollins Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/sonny-rollins-dead-1236920696\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from DEADLINE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sonny Rollins Dies: Jazz Giant Was 95<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/thomas-tapp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tom Tapp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sonny Rollins, Volume 1 (1957) (Full Album)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hHzJjmKPPV4?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sonny-rollins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sonny Rollins<\/a>, a giant of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jazz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jazz<\/a>\u00a0who was often called the music\u2019s \u201cgreatest improviser\u201d died today at his home in Woodstock, NY. That, according to a post on his official social media. He was 95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tenor saxophonist\u2019s 60-plus year career saw him record 60-plus albums. His compositions \u201cSt. Thomas,\u201d \u201cOleo,\u201d \u201cDoxy\u201d and \u201cAiregin\u201d are jazz standards. In its obituary, the New York Times observed, \u201cEven by the standards of a music that prizes individuality, he stood out.\u201d The Associated Press called Rollins \u201cthe restless genius of jazz.\u201d Undoubtedly that restlessness helped fuel his work over the decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/sonny-rollins-dead-1236920696\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at DEADLINE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from DEADLINE Sonny Rollins Dies: Jazz Giant Was 95 By\u00a0Tom Tapp Sonny Rollins, a giant of\u00a0jazz\u00a0who was often called the music\u2019s \u201cgreatest improviser\u201d died today at his home in Woodstock, NY. That, according to a post on his official social media. He was 95. The tenor saxophonist\u2019s 60-plus year career saw him record 60-plus albums. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14226,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions\/14226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}