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Thomas” initiated his explorations of calypso patterns; and “Blue 7” was hailed by Gunther Schuller as demonstrating a new manner of “thematic improvisation,” in which the soloist develops motifs extracted from his theme. I think he ran on the Communist Party. “Well, I must be on the right track. So the fact that I was accepted by Thelonious Monk and all these guys, I mean they looked at me almost as being an equal.

His uncle, a professional saxophonist, introduced him to jazz and blues. I wasn’t going to let people push me out there, so I could fall down. You also get some of Sonny’s commentary after the first draft is finished interspersed throughout the book.

Will he read the final version? I don’t want to exaggerate that part of the story, but the point is that he went through this struggle.

I don’t know if it was Mrs., you know. So I loved it when my uncle had to take care of me in the day sometimes.

How would you like to be remembered?

Sonny Rollins: I would like to be remembered as someone who made choices and tried to make myself a better person, and who didn’t listen to the crowd, and went the way that my conscience — if you want to put it that way — I listened to my conscience. They used to call me Jester, that was one of my nicknames.

Two compositions from Sonny Rollins' best known albums. My uncle used to take care of me a lot, quite a bit. And if you succeed, I don’t know. Although I happen to think it’s a gorgeous bridge, this is not the better-known Brooklyn Bridge.

It happens to be around the block from where he was living at the time at 400 Grand Street, so he could walk up there.

On one of them, everything was quite clean. “So I was wondering whether I should put it out again. 1 (2008), the first in a planned series of recordings from Rollins’s audio archives.

Rollins released Road Shows, vol. So I never — it wasn’t until I wanted to play the saxophone that I began.