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The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins

Sam Reese

An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics—everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racism—from the personal journals of Sonny Rollins, master of the tenor saxophone and “jazz’s greatest living improviser” ( Sonny Rollins is one...

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The trade paperback presented Rollins's 1959 notebook entries, revealing his technical concerns and early thoughts on his music during that period.

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We get clues from a new trade paperback, The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, whose entries begin in 1959.

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The trade paperback presented Rollins's 1959 notebook entries, revealing his technical concerns and early thoughts on his music during that period.

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We get clues from a new trade paperback, The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, whose entries begin in 1959.

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