Sonny Rollins is that dude ... Berton had come across Rollins playing atop the Williamsburg Bridge, which crosses the East River and connects North Brooklyn to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

“I was getting a lot of publicity for my work at that time, but I wasn’t satisfying my own requirements for what I wanted to do musically,” Sonny Rollins told Guardian jazz critic John ...

Sonny Rollins is, as the title of his 1957 album ... he practiced for up to 15 hours a day on the Williamsburg Bridge, come ...

The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins begin on the Williamsburg Bridge in 1961. That means they contain nothing about Rollins’ amazing ten year struggle against drugs and law enforcement, booking ...

Sonny Rollins is a true jazz legend ... he retired from playing gigs and became famous for practicing alone on the Williamsburg Bridge in New York. He has also battled health problems.

Sonny Rollins used to rent an apartment in New ... when Rollins spent days and nights practicing his horn on the Williamsburg Bridge, which connects the Lower East Side of Manhattan with Brooklyn.

Sonny Rollins, the greatest living tenor-saxophone ... A magazine writer saw him practicing his horn one night on the Williamsburg Bridge and published a short story about the spectacle; Mr ...

During that hiatus, he practiced on New York's Williamsburg Bridge. From the new 1959 reissue, here's Rollins in Stockholm playing his anthem, "St. Thomas." (SOUNDBITE OF SONNY ROLLINS' "ST ...

On Dec. 17, 1951, Sonny Rollins entered a studio for his first ... 1959—during which he practiced alone on New York’s Williamsburg Bridge. (He would take three such long sabbaticals during ...

Sonny Rollins is, as the title of his 1957 album ... he practiced for up to 15 hours a day on the Williamsburg Bridge, come rain or come shine. He returned to live performance in 1961, sounding ...