“Live your life now in a positive way. Help people if you can. Don’t hurt people. That works perfectly for me, man.”
Sonny Rollins
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Shelved: Sonny Rollins Live at Carnegie Hall
The saxophone colossus recorded two concerts at the same venue fifty years apart. Only one recording emerged from the vault.
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Remembering Jazz Composer Horace Silver
Horace Silver was one of jazz’s most influential composers and talented pianists. He’d played with countless greats, from Sonny Rollins to Miles Davis, and led a quintet that shaped jazz as we know it. You might not know Silver’s songs by name, but you’ve probably heard his melodies sampled in hip-hop. Silver died in June 2014 […]