Sonny Rollins

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278 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 11 Sep

Sonny Rollins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Fresh Air · Remembering jazz giant Sonny Rollins · 29 May 2026 podcast

Well, when I took my hiatus on the bridge, it became apparent because...

I had sort of gotten what I wanted to do.

I was trying to really accomplish something musically.

And I had sort of gotten close enough to what I was doing that I felt if I stayed there, it might have turned into a self-indulgence.

And that's not what it was about.

Well, yeah, we played in the night and at daytime, anytime.

It was actually a beautiful place to play because it was a...

nice space up there.

You were really on top of the subway.

The trains that came across the bridge were underneath you.

Yeah, the pedestrian walk.

So it's really a nice space up there, and you're sort of right in the middle of everything.

You can see the

Manhattan and on the other side Brooklyn and the boats would be coming by at night and you could blow as loud as you want and nobody would even look at you.

You know every now and then people would walk by

But nobody would even look.

You know, I mean, this was the sophistication of New Yorkers.

That's right, Lisa.

And I'm here to beg you to stop writing those letters.

This isn't about money, Lisa.

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