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Sax Legend a Triple Winner
Five, featuring G ram m y-win-
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Esperanza Spalding on bass
and Jam es W eidman on piano,
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Jazz great Sonny Rollins performs during a concert in Tokyo.
Rollins was a triple winner at the annual Jazz Awards.
(A P )— Tenor sax legend Sonny
Rollins was a triple w inner last
week at the annual Jazz Awards,
garnering m usician of the year
honors for the second straight
year.
Rollins also repeated as the top
tenor saxophonist. His latest CD,
"Road Shows, Vol. 2," consisting
o f live recordings from concerts
in Japan and his Septem ber 2010
80th birthday concert in New York,
highlighted by a first-ever public
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Colem an, was chosen the year's
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"I was bom with some talent for
which 1 am grateful," Rollins said in
a statement read from the stage at
the Blue Note jazz club."I copied
and learned from my predecessors
and I'm grateful to them, and I grate
fully accept this award.”
Rollins could not attend the cer
emony because he was moving to a
new home in upstate New York.
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