ABC Radio National s The Music Show clocks up 30 years on air
By presenter Andrew Ford
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Andrew Ford interviewing a trumpeter on the streets of New Orleans in 2000.
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You ll have to imagine the anticipation.
It s a Saturday morning in May 2008, and as usual The Music Show is live in the studio.
I m quite used to speaking to famous musicians, but this morning it s one of the great jazz musicians of all time.
Sonny Rollins has played with Bud Powell and Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Max Roach.
His tunes some of them now standards include Oleo and The Bridge, the latter named after New York s Williamsburg Bridge on which Rollins used to practice so as not to disturb his neighbours.
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