Fictional story about The Bridge

[medjuck]

Long Short story with   references to Sonny Rollins practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge.

 

http://harpers.org/archive/2015/11/williamsburg-bridge/

[Joe]

Thanks for sharing this.

[David Ayers]

I was expecting a different Bridge!

 

 

Edited December 8, 2015 by David Ayers

[BillF]

First seen in Dobell's window in 1962.

[JSngry]

What was the older (early 60s?) short story that had a similar reference, only the saxophonist wasn't actually referred to as Sonny Rollins?

[ghost of miles]

21 hours ago, JSngry said:

What was the older (early 60s?) short story that had a similar reference, only the saxophonist wasn't actually referred to as Sonny Rollins?

Ralph Berton's piece "Conversations On A Bridge" in a July 1961 issue of Metronome, and he referred to Sonny as "Buster Jones."  I Xeroxed it while I was working on the recent Night Lights program about Sonny's return-from-the-bridge period, and there's a brief excerpt included in the web-post.. I'll try to scan the whole article and post it at some point:  Crossing The Bridge: The Return of Sonny Rollins

Edited December 9, 2015 by ghost of miles

[JSngry]

Yeah, that's it, thanks!