Saxophone Colossus: The Life And Music Of Sonny Rollins Aidan Levy Da Capo Press Inc Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts

**Winner Of The American Book Award (2023)**?**Longlisted For Pen Jacqueline Bograd Weld (2023)**The Long-Awaited First Full Biography Legendary Jazz Saxophonist And Composer Sonny Rollins Has Long Been Considered An Enigma Known As \ Saxophone Colossus He Is Widely Acknowledged One Greatest Improvisers All Time Winning Grammys Austrian Cross Honor Sweden\ S Polar Music Prize A National Medal Arts Bridge From Bebop To Avant-Garde Lasting Link Golden Age Pictured In Iconic Great Day Harlem\ Portrait His Seven-Decade Career Well Documented But Backstage Life Man Once Called Only Recluse\ Gone Largely Untold-Until Now Based On More Than 200 Interviews With Himself Family Members Friends Collaborators Rollins\ Extensive Personal Archive Comprehensive This Civil Rights Activist Environmentalist Child Harlem Renaissance Precocious Talent Landed Him Bandstand Recording Studio Bud Powell Thelonious Monk Charlie Parker Miles Davis Dizzy Gillespie Or Playing Opposite Billie Holiday Icon Own Right Recorded Tenor Madness Featuring John Coltrane Way Out West Freedom Suite Rights-Themed Album Hard Bop Era Night At Village Vanguard 1956 Classic Yet Meteoric Rise Fame Was Not Without Its Challenges Served Two Sentences Rikers Island Won Battle Heroin Addiction 1959 Took Two-Year Sabbatical Performing Practicing Up 16 Hours Williamsburg 1968 Left Again Study Ashram India Returned 1971 Until Retirement 2012 ? Story Rollins-Innovative Unpredictable Larger Life-Is Itself Sonny\ Narrative Timeless Timely Art Form Represents Part Oral History Told Musicians\ Words Chronicle Man\ Quest Social Justice Spiritual Enlightenment Definitive Most Enduring Influential Artists Σελίδες: 800 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0213 Διαστάσεις: 15X15Cm