Perhaps some of our supporters want to tell Councilmember Christopher Marte NYC Council Member Carlina Rivera Mark D. Levine, who supported Beastie Boys Square, about why 93-year old native son Sonny Rollins is worthy of a bridge renaming? We’ve been at this 7 years already & been ignored by local politicians.

Join us tonight for a Deep Focus online seminar on #ParisBlues starring #SidneyPoitier and #PaulNewman. Our talk will be led by author Aidan Levy who recently published a book on #jazz saxophonist and composer #SonnyRollins Register Here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Question for Aidan Levy: I'm traveling at the moment without access to your book & can't recall if you have any specific details on why the 1/15/64 session for Sonny's Now's the Time w/Thad, Herbie, Cranshaw, Elvin yielded only a single unissued version of Four. Ever heard it?

Justin Desmangles with author Aidan Levy, winner of the 44th annual American Book Award for Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins, Sun. Oct. 1, 2023, San Francisco [photo by Johnnie Burrell] #AmericanBookAward #BeforeColumbusFoundation #SonnyRollins

“My playing is my meditation": Sonny Rollins in conversation with David Sanborn (Part 2) wbgo.org/season-2/2023-…

Aidan Levy’s award-winning biography ‘Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins’ is now available in paperback. bookshop.org/p/books/saxoph…

my list of 2023's best #music #journalism w/ Karen Attiah Myke Bartlett ecleen luzmila caraballo Adam Faze Nelson George Wren Graves Kory Grow Marc Hogan Devon Ivie Aidan Levy Amanda Marcotte Vernon Reid Jeff Rosenstock + Patti Smith & Courtney Love rockcritics.com/2023/12/27/bes… via @RockCritics

My wishes for the planet in 2024: No killing. No killing. Don't kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason. –S.R.

Happy Centennial Birthday to Max Roach! Here's the drummer with Sonny Rollins, Kenny Dorham, Ray Bryant, and George Morrow, performing George Russell's "Ezz-thetic," released on the 1956 EmArcy album Max Roach + 4: youtube.com/watch?v=t-eyOR…

This week marks Max Roach’s 100th birthday. WKCR DJ and my former student Georgia Dillane asked if I could do an interview for a piece on the Freedom Now Suite for this month’s on-air guide. The centennial birthday broadcast ends tonight at midnight! issuu.com/wkcrfm/docs/on…

Following up on my hopes for 2024 - People: stop killing each other. We need to get a realization in our minds that this ancient way of life is now over. No more killing! –S.R.

Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Lester Young, Gene Krupa, and Art Blakey were Jeopardy clues last night in the “Jazz’ Great Day in Harlem” category. Champion Ben Chan went 4/5, but everyone was stumped by Blakey.

“Everyone on this album is gone, but they’re more present than most living people.” David Yaffe on the new deep dive into Kind of Blue by James Kaplan.

On Thursday April 4 from 12-2pm ET, Sonny Rollins' biographer Aidan Levy will join WKCR's Rachel Smith in a celebration of the 67th anniversary of the release of the album Saxophone Colossus. Listen live at cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

RIP Albert “Tootie” Heath (1935-2024) 📸 Jan Persson/Getty Images, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1968 Sonny Rollins, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Kenny Drew, Tootie Heath

"One must aspire to the level at which one shall have completely and conclusively been convicted in the thought so as to be able to walk into the lion's den and demonstrate one's MASTERSHIP." From The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, coming Apr 16 from NYRB Books.

“Sonny's Bridge,” Faith Ringgold (1930-2024), acrylic on cotton canvas, 1986

Our electeds can honor a great artist and New Yorker, and rename it the Sonny Rollins Williamsburg Bridge while he's still here to appreciate it.

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