(FILES) US jazz tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins performs on November 2, 1987 at the 8th Paris Jazz Festival at the Zénith. Sonny Rollins, the "Saxophone Colossus" whose hard-charging yet flowingly meditative works made him the last in a golden era of jazz greats, died on May 25, 2026. He was 95. (Photo by Patrick HERTZOG / AFP via Getty Images)