Tenor Colossal

“If I can play again, I’d like to play again. I feel I haven’t quite gotten where I wanted to get to in my music. I’ve had a successful career. I’ve done what I’ve always wanted to do, which is music. I’m 85 years old now, so there is nothing to be angry about. If I can play again, if I can get the medications, these new drugs, then fine, I’ll be able to play again. If not, that’s the way it is. I have accepted it.”
 — Hilton Als talks to the [WE NEED A SOMETHING SUPERLATIVE TO “ICONIC” BECAUSE THAT WORD HAS LOST ALL MEANING DUE TO OVERUSE; DITTO “LEGENDARY”] Sonny Rollins for The Pitchfork Review’s jazz issue. There is also an article by Carvell Wallace about Thelonious Monk which I have not yet read, but the man was the greatest composer of the 20th Century, so it would be difficult to fuck that up.