and Thelonious Monk, both of whom leap to life in these pages. These are the artists whose aggressive improvisation, rhythmic thrust and fiery soloing put hard bop on the map.
We’re also with Rollins as his heroin addiction slowly consumes him — as it did so many other jazz greats — culminating in a half-baked 1950 armed-robbery plot that never gets off the ground but still lands him on New York’s Rikers Island for 10 months. “Sonny was a twenty-one-year-old black man in a city that was predisposed to find him guilty,” Levy writes. New York police weren’t happy with the racial mixing going on at downtown clubs, and jazz musicians were easy targets.
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