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Article: Living legend.(Time Out!)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- March 23, 2001
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Byline: Barbara Vitello Daily Herald Staff Writer
"There is nothing like the exhilaration which the challenge of improvisation invites. Sometimes, when I am in the midst of a really good performance, my mind will imperceptibly switch to automatic pilot and I find myself just standing there while the spirit of jazz, as it were, occupies my body, choosing for me just the correct note, the correct phrase, the correct idea and when to play it."
-Sonny Rollins from the forward to John Fordham's "Jazz"
Sonny Rollins wears his acclaim casually.
A pioneering tenor saxophonist who has endured long after many of his fellow pioneers have ...