To truly understand Sonny Rollins, you need to know something about Westerns. The simple ones from the 1930s that weren't big productions and didn't have elaborate musical scores. Just terse dialogue, tough looks and lots of justice. Sonny loves them. He grew up in Harlem during the Depression and regularly tuned into Westerns on the family radio and w…
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