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    • It's interesting to me, sometimes the results, always the process. How he gets to his zone is nobody's business but his own, and if he's willing to own it, no matter if it soars or if it plops (and hasn't it always been so?) then I find that a lot more interesting than most players in general who create some security blanket baseline that allows them to "sound good" no matter what. In that way, he seems like, of all people, Lee Konitz! Rhythm sections...they have one job - stay the fuck out of his way. If he gets there, stay the fuck out of the way. If he doesn't get there, stay the fuck out of the way until/if he does. Highest highs, lowest lows, and no apologies. Far more interesting to me than many, many other people. Of course, you have no obligation to share my interest. But work on your tone, as I do one mine. We can but dream!
    • Don Novello David Plotz Walter Booker  
    • If you are implying that I am looking for a problem, that's not really fair. It implies that I come to Sonny's music looking to pick it apart. The truth is really the opposite; for years I cut him a lot of slack, saw him more than a few times through the '70s and '80s and always thought I should like what I didn't, so I kept going back. There were moments of illumination but they were like listening to someone whose feet were trapped in mud. There was no way out, and Sonny, I soon realized, wasn't looking for a way out so I gave up. I'm not questioning his right to do whatever he wants, but that doesn't make it interesting. like with all of Sonny there are some amazing possibilities. He is one of a handful of saxophonists of that generation who made a smooth and real transition to harmonic adventures that shadowed the free jazz/post-Trane movement. That's an amazing thing. But the way they recorded this  isn't appealng to me, boomy bass and airless. And his performances don't really go anywhere. But it does make fascinating listening. Sonny's was a great musical mind and listening to him on something like this is like listening to a great scientist strugglling to invent something he knows is within his grasp. This is def. one of his best later things.
    • I would say yes.  This, to me, was the autobiography Sonny wanted to write, and it's apparent he extensively cooperated with Levy.  I found the details of his arrest as a teenager fascinating, how his father's experiences affected Sonny's politics, the details about Clifford Brown's death and funeral (with pictures), his many sojourns in Europe with pickup groups, his home life with Lucille...the list goes on.  The book is exhaustively documented - I don't think we need the details of every tour Sonny did in the '70's, '80's, and '90's, so you may want to dip into the book for specific periods you'd find interesting - but you do come away with a good sense of the man's personality.
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