over 50 years one of the most powerful and personal voices in jazz" (2007) Honorary Doctor of Music from Colby College(2007) Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (2009) Honorary Doctor of Music from Rutgers University (2009) National Medal of Arts (2010) Miles Davis Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival (2010) Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010) Kennedy Center Honors on his 81st birthday (September 7, 2011) Honorary Doctor of Music from the Juilliard School (May 2013) Honorary Doctor of Music from the University of Hartford (2015) Edward MacDowell Medal (2010) References Further reading Articles Giardello, Joe (June–July 1995). "Sonny Rollins: Our Man in Jazz". Coda. pp. 8–11. Goldberg, Joe (June 10, 2000). "Jazz: Sonny at 70". Billboard. pp. 66, 72. "With a Song in His Heart". Yoga Journal. May 2006. pp. 119–120 King, Daniel (June 11, 2020). "Sonny Rollins on the Pandemic, Protests and Music". The New Yorker. Books Blancq, Charles. Sonny Rollins: The Journey of a Jazzman. Boston: Twayne, 1983. Blumenthal, Bob, and John Abbott. Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins. New York: Abrams, 2010. Broecking, Christian. Sonny Rollins: Improvisation und Protest. Creative People Books / Broecking Verlag, 2010. Médioni, Franck. Sonny Rollins: Le Souffle Continu. Paris: Editions MF, 2016. Nisenson, Eric. Open Sky, Sonny Rollins and his World of Improvisation. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Palmer, Richard. Sonny Rollins: The Cutting Edge. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. Theard, Christine Marie. It's All Good: Colossal Conversations with Sonny Rollins. They Are Divine Books, 2018. Wilson, Peter Niklas. Sonny Rollins: The Definitive Musical Guide. Berkeley: Berkeley Hills Books, 2001. Wyatt, Hugh. Sonny Rollins: Meditating on a Riff. New York: Kamama Books, 2018. External links Sonny Rollins Biography and Interview on American Academy of Achievement Detailed Discography at Jazzdisco.org Sonny Rollins papers, 1910s-2015 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. Sonny Rollins audiovisual collection from his personal holdings Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. 1930 births Living people African-American jazz composers African-American jazz musicians African-American woodwind musicians American jazz bandleaders American jazz tenor saxophonists American male saxophonists American people of United States Virgin Islands descent Bebop saxophonists Blue Note Records artists Contemporary Records artists Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners Hard bop saxophonists Impulse! Records artists Kennedy Center honorees Milestone Records artists Musicians from New York City Prestige Records artists Recipients of