Sonny Rollins’s notebooks

Coming in April from New York Review Books, The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins. The February Harper’s has excerpts. Two of them:

Another good day to think and be thankful for.

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One day in the future people will be saying “Yes I once saw Sonny Rollins.”

I once saw Sonny Rollins, in 1993, and that still might the most exciting live music I’ve ever heard. And I saw him once again in 2006. The second time I had these pages.

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