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RE: The stuff of legends...

Posted by belyin on January 21, 2022 at 18:19:45:
I have only seen Sonny Rollins twice. The first time was at the Chicago Jazz Festival in 2008. It was fine--he was and is still Sonny Rollins after all--but it wasn't transcendent. The second time certainly was, and he didn't even play a note. In was at the amazing Ornette Coleman tribute at Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Before the music started the MC introduced a "special guest" and out walked Sonny Rollins looking like a prophet in a long black cloak-like garment with his glorious shock of white hair and beard. Sonny expressed his love for Ornette and quoted his friend saying Ornette taught him "It's all good." And then Ornette came on stage (no one I had talked to knew if would be there,) and the two embraced. Such a poignant moment--the last figures from the heroic age of jazz embracing for what was clearly the last time. I doubt there was dry eye in the house.