Sonny Rollins’ letter to Coleman Hawkins
I couldn’t resist reblogging this wonderful letter from one great saxophonist, Sonny Rollins, to another, Coleman Hawkins.
The letter was written in 1962. You can find here on Youtube a recording of the two of them playing the great Jerome Kern tune All The Things You Are at the Newport Jazz Festival just a few months later in summer 1963. The title seems to match the sentiments of the letter rather nicely!
Do read this, a touching letter from Sonny Rollins to Coleman Hawkins in 1962 (from the website www.jazzclef.com). The greatest players possess not only self-discipline and powers of concentration, but generally, great humility.
In the Dark 
March 4, 2015 at 1:16 pm
Indeed a touching letter. Thanks for re-posting!
March 29, 2015 at 6:55 am
Sonny-All class.
March 29, 2015 at 4:56 pm
He gave him his flowers before he died, an example for all of us.
March 31, 2015 at 5:00 pm
a great model for how to honor our esteemed elders.