Gary Giddins interview with Tom Reney about Sonny Rollins - Jazz à la Mode

August 17, 2010 - For 50 years, a famed artists' retreat in Peterborough, New Hampshire -- the MacDowell Colony -- has made a prestigious annual award to artistic greats -- painters, playwrights, classical musicians. Now, for the first time, the MacDowell medal will recognize a jazz musician - saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Here is WFCR Jazz a la Mode host Tom Reney's extended interview with biographer and former MacDowell colonist, Gary Giddins.