An American jazz musician who is, without question, one of the baddest cats ever to pick up a tenor saxophone.
His albums, in particular Saxophone Colossus, Tenor Madness, Way Out West and Live at the Village Vanguard, are some of the finest examples of human expression in our species' short history. Influenced to a large degree by Coleman Hawkins, Charlie
Parker, Thelonius Monk and Miles
Davis, Rollins is one of the finest improvisers in
jazz history. Possessor of an edgy, dark, ballsy tenor sound.
This man must be venerated.