![]() ![]() I like to get wrapped up in his music and the music of some of his contemporaries, influences and the musicians that came after him and try to wonder what their motivations were, why they did that one thing at that one point in the song, and where their heads go to when they’re playing. But the more you listen to an artist like Rollins, the more you start to question things. ![]() Let Ambient 1: Music for Airports or a Stars of the Lid album wash over you. Not to get all Jewish guy talking about jazz, but listening to music doesn’t always have to be a passive experience. Books on jazz figures, like the art form the musicians being written about practice, are worth taking your time with. ![]() I just started reading Aidan Levy’s Saxophone Colossus The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins and I assume it’s one of those books I’ll take a bit of time with, not because of the number of pages, but because I really want to savor it. The thing is a damn doorstopper of a book that clocks in at under 800 pages, including a number of citations so healthy that t he publisher has a link on the book’s website to a Dropbox where you can go look at them for yourself. There’s a new-ish biography on Sonny Rollins that has sort of flown under the radar. ![]()
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