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atane:

Sonny Rollins remembers Jackie McLean

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iamsangsouvanh:

Sonny Rollins
tornandfrayed:

Sonny Rollins at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, early 1990s.

"People ask: ‘Are you playing in a trance?’ Someone even asked if it was like a state of grace. I prefer to say it’s a ‘stream of consciousness’. I can’t separate it out - you couldn’t separate out the drops of water in a stream - but it is conscious! I’m not sleeping up there."

- Sonny Rollins
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20 minute excerpt from an interview with Rudy Van Gelder, from the DVD ‘Perfect Takes’.

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asteroidbelt:

Sonny Rollins.
artandsound:

Bud Powell, The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume One (1951)
photograph by Francis Wolff