Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
伝説のジャズ・サックス奏者であり作曲家であるソニー・ローリンズの待望の初の完全な伝記。自由の闘士であり精神的探求者の魅力的な物語を記録しており、その生涯は音楽と同じくらいテーマに沿った即興演奏であったソニー・ローリンズは長らく謎とされてきた。 「サクソフォンの巨人」として知られる彼は、グラミー賞、オーストリア名誉十字勲章、スウェーデンのポーラー・ミュージック賞、そしてスウェーデンの国家芸術勲章を受賞した、最も偉大なジャズ即興演奏家として広く知られています。
作品情報
伝説のジャズ・サックス奏者であり作曲家であるソニー・ローリンズの待望の初の完全な伝記。自由の闘士であり精神的探求者の魅力的な物語を記録しており、その生涯は音楽と同じくらいテーマに沿った即興演奏であったソニー・ローリンズは長らく謎とされてきた。
伝説のジャズ・サックス奏者であり作曲家であるソニー・ローリンズの待望の初の完全な伝記。自由の闘士であり精神的探求者の魅力的な物語を記録しており、その生涯は音楽と同じくらいテーマに沿った即興演奏であったソニー・ローリンズは長らく謎とされてきた。 「サクソフォンの巨人」として知られる彼は、グラミー賞、オーストリア名誉十字勲章、スウェーデンのポーラー・ミュージック賞、そしてスウェーデンの国家芸術勲章を受賞した、最も偉大なジャズ即興演奏家として広く知られています。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Da Capo
- 発売日
- 2022-12-06
- ページ数
- 784ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 16.76 x 6.35 x 24 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780306902796
- ISBN-10
- 0306902796
- 価格
- 6984 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Biographies & Memoirs/Leaders & Notable People
**Winner of the American Book Award (2023)** **Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)** The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the “Saxophone Colossus,” he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time, winning Grammys, the Austrian Cross of Honor, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize and a National Medal of Arts. A bridge from bebop to the avant-garde, he is a lasting link to the golden age of jazz, pictured in the iconic “Great Day in Harlem” portrait. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called “the only jazz recluse” has gone largely untold—until now. Based on more than 200 interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins’ extensive personal archive, Saxophone Colossus is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist. A child of the Harlem Renaissance, Rollins’ precocious talent landed him on the bandstand and in the recording studio with Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, or playing opposite Billie Holiday. An icon in his own right, he recorded Tenor Madness, featuring John Coltrane; Way Out West; Freedom Suite, the first civil rights-themed album of the hard bop era; A Night at the Village Vanguard; and the 1956 classic Saxophone Colossus. Yet his meteoric rise to fame was not without its challenges. He served two sentences on Rikers Island and won his battle with heroin addiction. In 1959, Rollins took a two-year sabbatical from recording and performing, practicing up to 16 hours a day on the Williamsburg Bridge. In 1968, he left again to study at an ashram in India. He returned to performing from 1971 until his retirement in 2012. The story of Sonny Rollins—innovative, unpredictable, larger than life—is the story of jazz itself, and Sonny’s own narrative is as timeless and timely as the art form he represents. Part jazz oral history told in the musicians’ own words, part chronicle of one man’s quest for social justice and spiritual enlightenment, this is the definitive biography of one of the most enduring and influential artists in jazz and American history.
Aidan Levy is the author of Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed and editor of Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters . A former Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellow, his writing has appeared in The New York Times , The Village Voice , JazzTimes , and The Nation .
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Libro bellissimo, caldamente raccomandato agli amanti del genere; la spedizione nei termini e nei modi indicati. Imballaggio punto dolente: articolo unicamente avvolto in un cartoncino leggero e sottile, non adatto a proteggerlo da urti e schiacciamenti, con fessure aperte che lasciavano il prodotto a contatto con l'esterno. All'interno del pacchetto il libro era privo di un qualsiasi rivestimento (foglio di plastica o di carta); il prodotto non era rovinato ma leggermente usurato nella sovracoperta e abbondantemente impolverato. AMAZON DEVE CURARE MAGGIORMENTE L'IMBALLAGGIO!!!
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Estou amando.
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Nothing here to dislike. It arrived well packaged before the expected date. Thanks all!
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I love Sonny Rollins. This is a definitive biography.
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At 715 pages, this is a colossus of a biography, but it is an absolutely riveting read. It took me two weeks to complete, not so much because of the length, but because I spent so much time stopping to underline key passages that were exceptionally thought-provoking and/or that were incredibly moving. Levy is as good a storyteller as he is a researcher. Through Levy, we get to see the full scope of Rollins’ personality. What I love about Rollins is that he’s motivated only by his quest for “the lost chord,” as Levy describes it — a metaphor for Rollins’ desire to play perfectly. Through Levy’s portrayal, we see Rollins as a searcher, an explorer. He left the jazz scene to practice on his own for two years despite having reached a pinnacle of acclaim. He traveled to India to become a student of yoga. He learned about Rosicrucianism and Buddhism and Hinduism. His quest was a musical one, but also an intellectual one, and a spiritual one. Music was always his form of meditation, long before he even realized that was the case. Rollins’ life contains the history of jazz. His admiration, love, and respect for the elders from whom he learned is very inspiring. Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell are people he speaks of in reverential tones. Then there were his contemporaries — John Coltrane, Jimmy Heath, etc. And then the young lions — Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redmon, Roy Hargrove, etc. Reading the story of Rollins’ life is like reading the story of jazz. And it reads like a novel, not like an encyclopedia, due, again, to Levy’s phenomenal storytelling skills. In a lot of ways this book is about the journey of self-discovery and self-actualization that we all must walk, each in our own way. Sonny’s devotion to music was absolute. One of the most telling moments in the book comes when Sonny is forced to evacuate his NYC apartment, in the dark, shortly after the 9/11 attacks. Levy writes, “…the National Guard came to evacuate him and three other stranded residents…. Sonny had to walk down 39 flights of stairs. He grabbed a flashlight and his tenor.” There are many more such moments throughout this book where I felt I had to just put it down for a second and take in the full depth of what I just read. If I could give this book six stars I would.
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