Currently writing ‘A Walk in the Free World: Other Music in Brazil’ • Sonny Rollins Bridge Project https://www.change.org/p/rename-the-williamsburg-bridge-as-the-sonny-rollins-williamsburg-bridge • urban planner • amateur
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Woohoo!! 20,000 signatures for #SonnyRollinsBridge
Now’s the time @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Helado Tropical [Helado Negro & Reyna Tropical]
July 17 • Psychic Hotline
heladotropical.bandcamp.com/album/helado...
Brooklyn, NY, 6.10.19 #SonnyRollinsBridge
Syracuse, NY, 6.10.25
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Forgot that this came out. Vamos.
Charles Lloyd • Sangam & Friends
in homage to Zakir Hussain
July 24 • Blue Note
charleslloyd.lnk.to/sangamandfri...
João Gilberto was born in Juazeiro, Bahia 🇧🇷 on this day in 1931. A quiet revolutionary, he had a large hand in creating bossa nova. That sound changed popular music in Brazil & had a significant impact on jazz worldwide.
📸 Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, 1970
Was talking to a saxophonist yesterday about how there are so many John Coltrane imitators (for lack of a better word), but so few for Sonny Rollins. i adore Coltrane, so this is not a slight on him, but more to say that Rollins has always been harder to replicate as he pulled in so many elements
