Sonny Rollins, a 'colossus' who honed his jazz on an NYC bridge, dies at 95

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(Reuters) -- Sonny Rollins had recorded the confidently titled "Jazz Colossus" album in 1956. But the saxophonist remained wracked with self-doubt.So, in the summer of 1959, he began to play on the windswept pedestrian walkway of New York's Williamsburg Bridge. Initially a place where he could avoid