“What made me withdraw and go to the bridge was how I felt about my own playing,” the artist recalled. “I knew I was dissatisfied.” Every New Yorker is dissatisfied in their own way, but only one ...
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 23 "The Bridge" from Aidan Levy's Saxophone Colossus: The Life And Music Of Sonny Rollins (Hachette Books, 2023). On September 7, 1960, Sonny turned thirty.