(FILES) US musician Sonny Rollins performs, 29 June 2006 in Vienne, southeastern France, during the opening of the Vienne Jazz Festival. AFP PHOTO JEFF PACHOUD. 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 JEFF PACHOUD / AFP via Getty Images)