Advertisement Continue reading the main storyWhen Mr. Rollins hit the national jazz scene in the early 1950s, he seemed to possess a new kind of energy. Unlike Coleman Hawkins or Lester Young, whose mantle he picked up, Mr. Rollins rarely purred into his horn. Mr. Rollins almost never performed with a large ensemble, preferring to maximize his direct contact with the listener. (Mr. Rollins, who had briefly considered a career as a cartoonist, has always sketched constantly.) Why did Mr. Rollins never turn his thoughts and his expansive personal history into a book?

Source: New York Times May 29, 2017 21:22 UTC