-Heads up, Bay Area. The Greyboy Allstars will be at the San Francisco Beer and Oyster Festival (sounds like a good time) on May 16th. On guitar for Greyboy Allstars is one Elgin Park, the pseudonym of uber talented Michael Andrews.-A well-written review of a recent Fleet Foxes/Blitzen Trapper show at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland. And pix that are about as dreamy as one would expect.Blitz..
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--- - |- In an interview a few days before the Newport performance, Rollins told Rick Massimo of the Providence Journal why he has kept bassist Bob Cranshaw in his band for more than four decades... ...because he maintained the fixed portion of it, and that would allow me to extemporize freely and the song would still be maintained. It was a contrast; if he had the fixed part, then I could ...
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Sonny Rollins, the saxophone colossus, visited Hanover, NH last week. He'd been scheduled to play there in October but got the flu (he's 77 or 78, something like that). We held our tickets, fingers crossed, that he wouldn't slip away like so many of his generation. Then last night, Mother's Day, by coincidence, the concert went off. My husband, Bill, who is much more knowledgeable about jaz...
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“Tenor Madness” is the name of the only recording Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane made together. I thought I’d link them again because they’re both the subject of this entry and music service offerings.Sonny Rollins (see www.sonnyrollins.com to subscribe to his newsletter entitled “Newk’s Time”) is the subject of a new interview on MTV’s Urge network. In it, he discusses his new re
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I've been busy lately trying to get our bookstore put together (see the next paragraph). While Julie and I were putting together bookcases, I happened to hear a Sonny Rollins song on local radio station KKJZ that was new to me. The announcer confirmed what I had suspected; Sonny has a new CD out! It's entitled Sonny, Please. A couple of days later, I went to Tower Records and then Borders to f...
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Meanwhile, back at Metropolis Books, we decided to salute Black History month with a little bit of jazz. (Gee, what a stretch!)
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Three things woke me up this morning, a warm gentle breeze, sun streaming through the blinds, and the smell of brewing coffee.Things only got better when I heard the first notes of this Sonny Rollins tune, a take on the Johnny Mercer standard he cut in LA with Shelly Manne and Ray Brown in '57. It doesn't get much smoother.The next thing that hit my senses was the smell of bacon and within two ...
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Sunshine Holiday:Take a tall glass.Fill about 1/2 way with OJ or sweet grapefruit juice.Add tonic, about a quarter glass.Squeeze in a lemon or lime wedge.Add ice and gin or vodka to your liking.Mix nicely and enjoy with a dash of Sonny Rollins.
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