From Birdland broadcasts and bridge-side practice sessions to late-night television, Leonard Cohen collaborations, and a final summit meeting with Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins spent nearly seven decades treating improvisation as a form of spiritual inquiry. In the wake of his passing at 95, we revisit a handful of essential films, broadcasts, and performances that capture the humor, velocity, deep concentration, and eternal forward motion of a musician who never stopped searching for the unknown . . .
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