Sonny Rollins
speaker
278 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
Sonny Rollins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So that may be right, but in the case of just keeping my armature from bleeding and my lip from splitting, I like to play a certain amount every day, you know.
Yeah, a lot of them are songs that I heard when I was a youngster.
When I was growing up, the big thing to do every week was go to the movies on Saturday.
And on Saturday, we used to see a lot of these movies that had these scores on it by some of the composers.
And we'd see Louis Armstrong in pictures and different musical personalities that I enjoyed a lot.
Of course, I also heard music.
I ran the house and so on, but the movies did provide a certain large part, I think, of some of the things that I play today, you know.
I would say...
Basically, yes.
People like Coltrane and Clifford Brown, we all had an appreciation of what they would call today the standard songs.
In my case, I might have found some more obscure songs.
Well, they might have thought so, but they wouldn't dare to say it.
It was my gig, you know.
That's right.
Yeah, well, I was the youngest child.
I have an older brother who was a very fine classical violinist.
He ended up being a physician.
Then I had an older sister who was also saying a lot in church and everything.
And so I was supposed to follow in their footsteps.
Of course, I didn't because I was somewhat of a black sheep.
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