Comments on: ‘The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins’ https://ukjazznews.com/the-notebooks-of-sonny-rollins/ Jazz reviews, live previews, interviews and features from around the United Kingdom and beyond Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:21:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Terrence Humphreyi https://ukjazznews.com/the-notebooks-of-sonny-rollins/#comment-629 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:40:00 +0000 https://londonjazznews.com/?p=78185#comment-629 How can I speak to Sonny Rollins… m cousin play with him in the 50’s
Trumpeter Emery Humphrey Thompson

]]> By: oldengineering https://ukjazznews.com/the-notebooks-of-sonny-rollins/#comment-628 Thu, 02 May 2024 04:50:23 +0000 https://londonjazznews.com/?p=78185#comment-628 ““This government doesn’t give a damn about freedom for the people. It has nothing to do with freedom. It’s about power, it’s about money, it’s about racism and elitism and greed”, he writes, but what exact government he refers to isn’t clear.”

I think it could apply to any government anywhere in the world. For each country it is the same old, same old. We can see it in Britain – anyone who thinks Starmer and his pals will be any different to the current shower are living in cloud-cuckoo land – on most things both leaders agree, it is just that the principle of Buggins turn indicates that the toolmakers son has a go now. Sonny Rollins, as perceptive as ever.

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