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Sonny Rollins
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The official account of Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus.
- “Jazz had been seen as a bunch of ghoulish characters that came up after it got dark, like Dracula… this showed [us] to be people.” From Aidan Levy's Saxophone Colossus, Sonny Rollins on participating in Art Kane’s “Great Day in Harlem” photo, taken this day in 1958.
- "Rollins wasn’t trying merely to provoke. He was chasing the music in his head, being true to his 'voice'—a practice all jazz musicians strive for, but which few of us are committed or brave enough to lay down on record." Trumpeter Nate Wooley for n+1:
- "There's always, with Sonny Rollins, hints of the future, because he's always refracting what he knows into what is happening at the moment." Part 2 of Ken Micallef's conversation wit Ted Panken on the Essential Discs of Sonny Rollins:
