Johnny Carson
September, 1962
sharpening his axIn the late 1950s, the sinewy, intricately webbed ideas that flowed in endless profusion from his tenor had made Theodore "Sonny" Rollins undisputed head of the hard-bop sax men. Yet, in August of 1959, Rollins, whose bearded profile seems to have been chipped from an Assyrian frieze, surprised the jazz world by removing his ax completely from the field of combat. Two years and three months later, Sonny returned to the musical wars. The interim had seen him practicing...
