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Sonny Rollins’ 10 favorite records, from ‘The Book of Rock Lists’ Dave Marsh & Kevin Stein (Dell Books, 1982)

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Aretha’s Bridge

“Her music will forever hold the potential to bring the richest array of peoples together in a kind of humanist collectivity that, at its core, celebrates the sound of black womanhood as a site for radical social, spiritual and philosophical possibilities.

No time like now to take that bridge once more.”

NPR Music

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Aretha's Bridge
Amidst an instantly historic performance in 1971 that led to one of her best-known albums, Aretha Franklin's rendition of a single song carries inside it the weight of pop, soul and gospel history.
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“Perhaps the most incredible aspect of this guest appearance by the saxophone colossus is that he was uncredited on the cover of Tattoo You, even though he played not just on this tune but also on two others. Mick Jagger supposedly danced in front of the saxophonist during the takes so that Sonny would get the rhythm and vibe. Even if that’s an apocryphal story, it’s an indelible image.” JazzTimes; The Rolling Stones #SonnyRollinsBridge
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The 10 Greatest Jazz Cameos on Pop Songs - JazzTimes
The presence of jazz players on non-jazz records constitutes a long tradition in American popular music, but it may have hit its peak in the ’70s and ’80s with baby-boomer rockers and pop stars looking to jazzers to enhance, or even legitimize, their recordings. During that boom in the record in...
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