Available in full online here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/11/raised-voice
Yea, but how come that barely registers a blip here, when the "Sonny Rollins" thread is 5 pages long?... Yes, exactly.
I agree the parody wasn't very funny, but I don't understand all the outrage. Silliness at the expense of sacred cows is not such a bad idea, so relax a bit folks! Anybody want to write a Cecil Taylor interview?
You realize that there is very little actual outrage here?
For me it takes more to be outraged than a piece of particularly bad journalism. And Sonny for me is not a sacred cow but a well respected musician and personality.. He is also a particularly bad subject for a satire as there is nothing pompous about him, imho.