Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.

Rollins explored Latin rhythms on What's New; tackled the avant-garde on Our Man in Jazz featuring Bob Cranshaw on bass Billy Higgins on drums and Don Cherry on pocket trumpet; played with a tenor saxophone hero Coleman Hawkins on Sonny Meets Hawk! re-examined jazz standards on Now's the Time and some Great American Songbook standards on The Standard Sonny Rollins. for drug addicts. Rollins began to make a name for himself in 1949 as he recorded with J.

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