"I just want the music to play itself... If I have to think about what I'm doing, then the moment is already gone, you know?" NPR's Fresh Air shares Sonny Rollins' interviews from 1994 and 2005: www.npr.org/2026/05/29/n...
Rollins, who died May 25, had for decades been hailed as the greatest living jazz musician. Kevin Whitehead offers an appreciation, and we listen back to Rollins' 1994 interview with Terry Gross.