Throughout the seven decades Sonny Rollins has been recording and performing, his playing has always contained a certain poetic urgency. From his work in the early 1950s with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk to his most recent album, Sonny, Please, Sonny has worked tirelessly to create art that grabs listeners and awakens their aesthetic sensibility.
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