“Rollins was the last embodiment of jazz’s restless need to evolve. From his earliest bebop recordings to his later embrace of the avant-garde and the Caribbean beat of calypso, few musicians shaped American music more than Rollins. None better exemplified what jazz should be.“ Nate Wooley
Let Everything Change | Nate WooleyI became a Sonny Rollins fan on my 13th birthday, when my dad took me for the first time to his favorite record store in Portland, Oregon. He gave me $50, which in 1987, netted me twelve LPs. One was ...www.nplusonemag.com