Music

Documentary

Saxophone Colossus

8.0

101 min

1998

Robert Mugge

Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in jazz history, and still, today, he is viewed as the greatest living jazz improviser. In 1986, filmmaker Robert Mugge produced Saxophone Colossus, a feature-length portrait of Rollins, named after one of his most celebrated albums.

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Sonny Rollins

Self

Gary Giddins

Self

Ira Gitler

Self

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