Bob Blumenthal

Music Interview: Blumenthal on the Making of a Saxophone Colossus, Part Two

September 9, 2010
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By Steve Elman My  conversation with jazz critic Bob Blumenthal circled around two poles. Part one focused on the music of Sonny Rollins. Part two concentrates on the making of the new book, Saxophone Colossus: a Portrait of Sonny Rollins. Text by Bob Blumenthal. Photography by John Abbott. Abrams, 160 pages, $35. Aside from the Saxophone…

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Music Interview: Jazz Colossus at 80. Bob Blumenthal on Sonny Rollins

September 6, 2010
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Bob Blumenthal has spent almost his entire listening life as an admirer of Rollins and an appreciator of his music, and he is a prose stylist of great elegance and precision. There is hardly anyone alive more qualified to write this kind of career-spanning appreciation. Saxophone Colossus: a Portrait of Sonny Rollins Text by Bob…

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