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Sonny Rollins plays at Berklee Performance Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The show is recorded and will be released as Without A Song - The 9/11 Concert.Full article:
Mick Carlon (audience) : On September 11, 2001, jazz great Sonny Rollins was in his lower Manhattan apartment, only six blocks away from the World Trade Center. After the explosions, Rollins descended the stairs to watch the early rescue effort, then climbed back up to phone his wife, Lucille, who was in the couple’s upstate farmhouse. The 71 year old musician was then stuck in the apartment until rescue workers evacuated him and others the next day.
At first Rollins considered canceling his Saturday, September 15th gig at Boston’s Berklee Performance Center - but Lucille convinced him to play. And play he did! I was in the balcony that evening and Rollins and his band - Clifton Anderson on trombone; Stephen Scott on piano; Bob Cranshaw on bass; Perry Wilson on drums; Kimati Dinizulu on percussion—played with abandon and the determination not to allow evil to destroy the joys of music. Curious? You can hear this glorious gig on two albums: WITHOUT A SONG: THE 9/11 CONCERT (Concord Music) and HOLDING THE STAGE: ROAD SHOWS VOLUME 4 (Okeh).
Tragically, Sonny Rollins today (2020) suffers from a lung ailment caused by breathing in the debris of his neighborhood on that terrible day; he can no longer play his horn. With his beloved Lucille gone, Rollins, almost 90, lives alone in his upstate New York home - one of his nation’s true treasures.
(Source : Mick Carlon, reprinted here with his permission)
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At first Rollins considered canceling his Saturday, September 15th gig at Boston’s Berklee Performance Center - but Lucille convinced him to play. And play he did! I was in the balcony that evening and Rollins and his band - Clifton Anderson on trombone; Stephen Scott on piano; Bob Cranshaw on bass; Perry Wilson on drums; Kimati Dinizulu on percussion—played with abandon and the determination not to allow evil to destroy the joys of music. Curious? You can hear this glorious gig on two albums: WITHOUT A SONG: THE 9/11 CONCERT (Concord Music) and HOLDING THE STAGE: ROAD SHOWS VOLUME 4 (Okeh).
Tragically, Sonny Rollins today (2020) suffers from a lung ailment caused by breathing in the debris of his neighborhood on that terrible day; he can no longer play his horn. With his beloved Lucille gone, Rollins, almost 90, lives alone in his upstate New York home - one of his nation’s true treasures.
(Source : Mick Carlon, reprinted here with his permission)