{"id":357561,"date":"2026-09-26T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357561\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:54:09","slug":"photo-gallery-saxophone-colossus-a-celebration-of-life-and-music-of-sonny-rollins-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357561\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Gallery: &#8216;Saxophone Colossus: A Celebration of Life and Music of Sonny Rollins&#8217; in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City was packed on Saturday, September 19, 2026 for &#8220;Saxophone Colossus&#8221;: A Celebration of the Life and Music of the late great jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. <\/p>\n<p>Photographer and former WBGO staffer Jonathan Chimene captured the highlights of the event that was free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Sonny Rollins died on May 25, 2026 at the age of 95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City was packed on Saturday, September 19, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[48961,6160,133232,9,24,63,133233,133234,134,136,135,42336],"class_list":["post-357561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-cathedral-of-st-john-the-divine","tag-jazz","tag-jonathan-chimene","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-saxophone-colossus","tag-sonny-rollins","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-wbgo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}