Sonny Rollins Bridge
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The Sonny Rollins Bridge Project seeks to rename NYC's Williamsburg Bridge to commemorate Rollins' musical sabbatical there from 1959-61. https://t.co/GRva9tpHRK
Sonny Rollins Bridge
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sonny Rollins .#SonnyRollinsBridge.
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Joshua Redman, Jack DeJohnette, Gary Giddins and more musicians and writers highlight their favorites from the “saxophone colossus.”
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“I think that picture humanized a lot of the myth of what people thought jazz was.” Sonny Rollins.#SonnyRollinsBridge.
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Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered giants of the music. Sonny Rollins, 94, looks back at the historic picture.
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RT @RollinsBridge: Roy Haynes, Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Heath:.Snap Crackle, Saxophone Colossus, Little Bird. 📸 Jeanfrançois Prins, 2010 https:….
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RT @RollinsBridge: Jimmy Heath, Sonny Rollins, & Roy Haynes . AKA Little Bird, The Saxophone Colossus, & Snap Crackle . 📸 @johnabbottphoto….
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Roy Haynes, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, & Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Five Spot Cafe, NYC, September 1958 .📸 Marvin Oppenberg
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RIP Quincy Jones (1933-2024).
McCoy with Hubert Laws, Sonny Rollins, and Quincy Jones at the Downbeat Awards Show in 1975.
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Henry Grimes was born in Philadelphia on this day in 1935. 📸 © Paul Hoeffler, Rochester, NY, 1958, Henry Grimes with the Sonny Rollins Trio
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RIP Benny Golson (1929-2024). 📸 Art Kane “A Great Day in Harlem” outtake: Golson, Rollins, & Monk; August 12, 1958.#SonnyRollinsBridge
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Robert Mugge's 1986 film SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS . Free to watch through Sunday night . #SonnyRollinsBridge
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Sonny Rollins was born in New York City on this day in 1930. The Saxophone Colossus turns 94 years old today. 📸 Martin Schoeller .#SonnyRollinsBridge
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Benny Golson, 95, & Sonny Rollins, 93, are the only musicians remaining - of the 57 photographed - from “A Great Day in Harlem” . 📸 Art Kane outtake: Benny Golson, Sonny Rollins, & Thelonious Monk, 8.12.58. #SonnyRollinsBridge
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The jazz musicians pictured in A Great Day in Harlem
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On this day in 1958, Art Kane photographed 57 musicians at 17 East 126th Street for Esquire magazine. It was a Great Day in Harlem, 66 years ago today. #SonnyRollinsBridge
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Happy 82nd, Jack DeJohnette! . #SonnyRollinsBridge.📸 K. Abe/Shinko Music/Getty Images, recording w. Sonny Rollins at Mercury Studio, New York, NY, July 14, 1972
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WHO IS SONNY ROLLINS? a film by DICK FONTAINE. 1968. Canada. 28 min. Watch for free today. @lecinemaclub .#SonnyRollinsBridge.
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A stroll across New York with one of the most elusive and legendary saxophonists in jazz history.
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