"Following the attacks on the World Trade Centre, TV reports of New Yorkers being evacuated noticed among them 'an elderly black man carrying a saxophone case'. It was Sonny Rollins, who had witnessed the whole thing from his Manhattan pied-a-terre a few blocks away" @guardian According to @JazzTimes, "Sonny Rollins had been home in his Manhattan apartment, six blocks north of the World Trade Center, when the attacks occurred on 9/11. From the street, he watched the second tower go down. The National Guard evacuated him from his apartment on 9/12."...

Sixty years ago today, 57 jazz musicians were photographed in front of a brownstone at 17 E. 126th Street in Harlem for what would become the most famous photo in jazz history. ‘A Great Day in Harlem’ was shot at around 10 a.m. by freelance photographer Art Kane... The photo was published in the Jan 1959 issue of @esquire, roughly seven months before Sonny Rollins went to The Bridge. It brought together different generations of jazz musicians, e.g. pianist Luckey Roberts was 43 years older than Sonny Rollins at the time of the photo...