Original sentence: (These are unauthorized releases, and Rollins has responded by "bootlegging" them himself and releasing them on his website.Rollins was to draw the two threads together; he was a post-bop fluid improviser but also a huge man with a sound as big as Hawkins himself
Edited sentence: In short, over 50 years ago (as I write in 2007) Rollins was recording music of the highest calibre and is still working today.Rollins was to draw the two threads together; he was a post-bop fluid improvisor but also a huge man with a sound as big as Hawkins himself