Music Friday
May 4th, 2007 |Sonny Rollins, 1968
Rollins began his career at 11 years old in 1941. H is still touring and recording to this day at 77 years old. This is an amazing feat considering the devastation that drugs and alcohol made upon almost all his contemporaries. Rollins himself had drug problems but was able to kick his habit by 1953.
In 1956 Rollins would record the album that would provide him with a nickname for the balance of his life: Saxophone Colossus. If you are interested in checking out Rollins’ work I would start there.
