Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

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.

Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7 1930 in New York City) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Thomas" "Oleo" "Doxy" and "Airegin" have become jazz standards.