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

So I ended up leaving it in the apartment and explaining to the people in the apartment.

I was hoping that they would be able to handle it and take care of it in the proper way.

You know, I just, I hope so, you know.

Well, I spoke to my wife, Lucille, and I was all for not doing the show because I was really very unsteady on my feet.

Right, right.

It did.

And also, you know, I was just really shook up.

So I wanted to cancel it.

But you know my wife Lucille, and Lucille was a person that never wanted to violate a contract in any way.

And she also may have had a feeling that it would be important to do a concert at that particular time.

So anyway, she convinced me to...

to play the concert.

Well, you know, Nightingale sang in Barclays Square.

I guess I heard it during the 40s when I used to see all the movies that came in town every week.

And it's funny that Nightingale sang in Barclays Square may have had some connection to World War II.

And the scene when I was evacuated, and I walked down those steps that day, when I came downstairs, it was very reminiscent of those World War II pictures when there was the Blitz of London with all of the emergency vehicles and the smoke and the fumes.

I mean, it was really a...

It was really something that, but I guess it's something, I'm trying to say that it's stored someplace in my mind, so I guess since I'm still alive, I might have a way to turn it into some kind of a positive experience.

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