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The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins

The man often comes through in the notebooks, ideas for books to write, things to tell to other musicians like Davis and Mingus, a reminder of the right size suspenders to wear, admonishments on how he’s treating himself. His thinking about himself in the notebooks is self-critical, but there’s no direct line from this to the ideas that come out through his horn. But that’s the elusiveness of the great artists, they are great because they think of things others can’t, and it’s so inherent to their beings; there’s no way to explain it.

Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards s Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music – The Brooklyn Rail

It is absolutely a measure of his importance and achievement as a musician that a major publisher has brought out this book, Henry Threadgill’s autobiography (written with Brent Hayes Edwards in a fluid and engrossing style close to that of an oral history). Jazz in general is not a subject the big publishers are interested in, much less for someone like Threadgill who has been a leader in the avant-garde for decades.

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