Sonny Rollins
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Coming off the loss of Quincy Jones, Benny Golson, Roy Haynes and Lou Donaldson at the end of 2024, it’s truly a treat to bring you a fresh interview with one of the last musicians of the Bebop era, the saxophone colossus himself, Sonny Rollins. Since we last spoke, a couple interesting artifacts from Rollins life have surfaced: "The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins" and "Rollins in Holland." We discuss those releases, his spirituality and the loss of some of his comrades in 2024.
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| 0:40.7 | 2024 was a rough year for jazz. A lot of legends were lost from Quincy Jones to Roy Haynes, |
| 0:46.9 | Lou Donaldson, and Benny Golson. In fact, after the passing of Benny Golson, only one person |
| 0:52.7 | remains from the iconic 1958 photograph |
| 0:55.4 | A Great Day in Harlem, where dozens of jazz luminaries gathered together on a stoop in Harlem |
| 1:00.4 | to have a photograph taken to memorialize that era. That person is with us today, the great |
| 1:06.7 | Sonny Rollins. Since I last spoke to Sunny Rollins on the program a few years ago, a couple of interesting |
| 1:12.7 | artifacts have surfaced. |
| 1:14.2 | One is the notebook that he kept while he was in self-imposed exile for music between |
| 1:19.5 | 1958 and 1961. |
| 1:22.1 | Those were photocopied and made into a wonderful book called The Notebooks of Sunny |
| 1:25.8 | Rollins where you can get insight into what he was thinking about at the time, both socially, politically, and in terms of his music. |
| 1:33.2 | The other are some great live recordings of Sunny in Europe. There was also a great biography |
| 1:37.8 | published about Sunny Rollins since we last spoke by Aidan Levy called Saxophone Colossus, |
| 1:42.4 | The Life and Music of Sunny Rollins. |
| 1:44.9 | So though last year was a tough year for jazz, |
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