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04068aam a2200361 i 4500 001 FF7E1D54199211EFAA2C9EE853ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240524010037 008 230705s2024 nyua b 000 0deng 010 $a 2023029935 020 $a 1681378264 020 $a 9781681378268 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GCmBT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a ML419.R64 $b A3 2024 082 00 $a 788.7/165092 $2 23/eng/20230706 100 1 $a Rollins, Sonny, $e author. 245 14 $a The notebooks of Sonny Rollins / $c edited by Sam V. H. Reese. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York Review Books, $c [2024] 300 $a xxi, 152 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (page 152). 520 $a "An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics-everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racism-from the personal journals of Sonny Rollins, master of the tenor saxophone and "jazz's greatest living improviser" (The New York Times). Sonny Rollins is one of the towering masters of American music, a virtuoso of the saxophone and an unequaled improviser whose live performances are legendary and who reshaped modern jazz time and time again over the course of a career lasting more than sixty years. Throughout the greater part of it, Rollins also maintained a notebook in which he sketched in words and images as he pondered art and life and his own search for meaning. The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins provides an unequaled glimpse into the mind and workshop of a musical titan, along with a wealth of insight and inspiration to readers. In the fall of 1959, Rollins famously took a break from performing and recording. He turned to practicing for long hours, often late at night, on the Williamsburg Bridge, and it was then for the first time that he began to turn regularly to his notebooks, which at the time and in the years to come proved for him an indispensable instrument of change in their own right. Here Rollins can tend towards the aphoristic, as in "Face the startling and intriguing reality that there is within me a force working hard for my own destruction, even as I try to improve." Elsewhere, music is front and center, as he mingles observations on embouchure, fingering, and technique with reflections on harmony and dissonance. Lists of daily chores, rehearsal routines, reflections on particular tours and recordings (including detailed notes on how Rollins wanted live albums to be edited), and a steady stream of notes on diet and health also find their way into the notebooks, as do ruminations on systemic racism and the way nightclub culture degrades jazz musicians. Rollins emphatically resists claims that jazz should be considered solely as an African American art form, protesting the diminishment that is caused to jazz musicians by labeling their work "racial music." "The point to be absorbed here," he writes, "is that any definition which seeks to separate Johann Sebastian Bach from Miles Davis is defeating its own purpose of clarification. The musings of Miles is then the bouncing of Bach both played against each other." Carefully selected and including an informative introduction by critic and scholar Sam Reese, The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins makes a vital and fascinating document of American culture publicly available for the first time"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Rollins, Sonny $v Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. 600 10 $a Rollins, Sonny $v Diaries. 650 0 $a Saxophonists $v Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. 650 0 $a Jazz musicians $v Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. 650 0 $a Saxophonists $v Diaries. 650 0 $a Jazz musicians $v Diaries. 700 1 $a Reese, Sam V. H., $e editor. $e editor. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Rollins, Sonny. $t Notebooks of Sonny Rollins $d New York : New York Review Books, [2024] $z 9781681378275 $w (DLC) 2023029936 941 $a 1 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240524011135.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FF7E1D54199211EFAA2C9EE853ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search