{"id":151952,"date":"2026-05-26T02:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151952"},"modified":"2026-05-26T02:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:56:27","slug":"sonny-rollins-legendary-saxophone-colossus-dead-at-95united-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151952","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Rollins, legendary saxophone colossus, dead at 95United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostSaxophonist Sonny Rollins, who spent more than two years practising in solitude as a young man on a windswept New York bridge to reinvent his playing and \u2060become one of the giants of jazz, died at the \u2060age of 95 on Monday, his publicist said.<br \/>\nRollins had recorded the confidently titled Jazz Colossus album \u2060in 1956. But the saxophonist remained wracked with self-doubt.<br \/>\nSo, in the summer of 1959, he began to play on the windswept pedestrian walkway of New York\u2019s Williamsburg Bridge. Initially a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3354829\/sonny-rollins-legendary-saxophone-colossus-dead-95?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostSaxophonist Sonny Rollins, who spent more than two years practising in solitude as a young man on a windswept New York&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151952"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}