{"product_id":"9780810996151","title":"Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins","description":"\u003cp\u003eJazz legend Sonny Rollins will celebrate his 80th birthday this fall, and \u003ci\u003eSaxophone Colossus \u003c\/i\u003ewill be published to mark this occasion and honor his incredibly prolific career. This intimate appreciation combines the images of John Abbott, who as Rollins’s photographer of choice for the past 20 years has captured the saxophonist at home and at work, and the essays of Bob Blumenthal, a jazz critic who has chronicled Rollins and his art for nearly four decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonny Rollins has been at the center of jazz and its evolution virtually from his birth. Growing up in Harlem in the heyday of swing and coming of age as the first wave of modernists announced their discoveries, he quickly found himself sharing bandstands with his idols and making music of his own that continues to influence and inspire. \u003ci\u003eSaxophone Colossus\u003c\/i\u003e, named for the 1956 masterpiece of the same title, is Abbott and Blumenthal’s tribute to Rollins’s music and spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ABRAMS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015310098672,"sku":"9780810996151","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780810996151_p0.jpg?v=1763729206","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780810996151","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}