Blank For.ms, Marcus Gilmore and Jason Moran discuss their new release, Shards.
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Perhaps the most interesting thing about the concept of a loop is that it is a line that connects to itself. What once had a beginning and an end now has neither; a cycle of…
Sonny Rollins performing at the Chicago Jazz Festival in 1992
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“Is this going to be another negative, punch-Sonny-Rollins-in-the-eye article for DownBeat?” the man asked with weary resignation as he plopped into a den chair. “Well, I agreed to do it. I know how it’s going to come out anyway. So, go ahead, ask me. I’m ready.”
It was a telephone interview. I imagined Sonny Rollins sitting there in his Hudson River Valley country home north of Rhinebeck, New York; sitting there in a nimbus of ennui waiting to be prodded and poked with an assortment of those unpleasant, blunt instruments we journalists…
