The episode honors the life and legacy of jazz tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who died at 95, through a retrospective featuring jazz historian Kevin Whitehead’s appreciation and archival interviews with Rollins conducted by Terry Gross in 1994 and 2005. It explores Rollins’ artistic evo
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