Hardbopjazz

How about, How much music did he get to play and develop when he spent time in the Berkshires when he was young.

Yeah, with only 20 or so known painting by Da Vinci, there probably won't be another for sale.

Just joking. Bur someone who bought this yesterday was not joking. 450.3 million USD for this Leonardo da Vinci painting. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/arts/design/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-christies-auction.html

Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins Designates Major Gift to Oberlin NOVEMBER 13, 2017 By Erich Burnett Photo credit: John Abbott Newly created Sonny Rollins Jazz Ensemble Fund will support exemplary conservatory musicians and service efforts. In a career spanning seven decades, Sonny Rollins has left an indelible mark on the international jazz world. Now the saxophone legend and composer has done the same for Oberlin. This fall, Rollins designated a generous gift to Oberlin College for the purpose of establishing and maintaining the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Sonny Rollins Jazz Ensemble Fund. A phenom in the jazz world while still in his teens, Rollins was already playing and recording with Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell by his early twenties. His gift to Oberlin grew out of his friendship with author and musician James McBride, a 1979 graduate of Oberlin College. The gift was made in recognition of the institution’s long legacy of access and social justice advocacy. In particular, Rollins was moved by Oberlin’s place as the first institution of higher learning to adopt a policy to admit students of color and the first to confer degrees to women, and by the contributions of alumni such as Will Marion Cook, a black violinist and composer who graduated in 1888 and who went on to become an important teacher and mentor to Duke Ellington. https://www.oberlin.edu/news/jazz-legend-sonny-rollins-designates-major-gift-oberlin

It's not?

Happy Birthday.

Done already.