Sonny Rollins

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

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

She was really...

But I had a lot of problems from the rest of my family.

My father, my grandmother, they really were pretty down on me.

And my siblings, they didn't really understand where I was coming from anyway.

But I have to say that my mother really believed in me all the way.

And I'm really happy that...

I was able to get myself together before she left the scene.

So she kind of saw me start to make records and so on like that.

So I sort of made her feel that her trust wasn't exactly all in vain, you know.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, I was arrested.

Unfortunately, I had to get involved with the justice system and all of this stuff, you know.

But I was always lucky because I was able to get involved with music programs.

In the prison?

Right.

And in those days, there were other musicians there, you know, so.

Yeah, it scared me a lot.

It scared me a lot.

But again, I was lucky because I could play an instrument, and a lot of the other prisoners knew of me, so I immediately had respect from them.

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