Stanley Crouch on Sonny Rollins

Stanley Crouch always has something to say, this time on Sonny Rollins, in the online edition of the New Yorker.
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"Well, Sonny Rollins is one of the brightest lights in the history of the music; his talent is up there next to that of Armstrong, Young, and Parker. He is a true natural and a great synthesizer. In improvising, he does the same thing that Ellington did when composing: he reinvents the entire tradition, because he understands all of the differences and all of the connections."

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