Jazz Icon Sonny Rollins on the Difference Between Knowing and Believing

[Hardbopjazz]

 A good read.

Sonny Rollins, now 87, accepts everything that has happened in his life with love and gratitude.

Stories of The Saxophone Colossus are legendary—from tales of him painting on a fake mustache to sneak into jazz clubs and catch Charlie Parker play to the oft-mythologized image of him practicing in solitude on The Williamsburg Bridge—and we’ll likely be discovering more for years to come.

Though Pulmonary fibrosis has left his lungs too scarred to play his horn, his life’s work will not be lost to any generational gap. Last year he donated his entire archives containing his writings on everything from improvisation to race relations, old newspaper clippings and personal ephemera to the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. These artifacts from Rollins’ life will be right at home in the Harlem institution, just blocks from where he grew up, next to James Baldwin’s recently acquired archives and years of Black American history, from slave narratives to artwork from the Harlem Renaissance.

More below.

http://www.realclearlife.com/music/jazz-icon-sonny-rollins-difference-knowing-believing/

 

 

Edited February 19, 2018 by Hardbopjazz