Sonny Rollins' Personal Notebooks Reveal His Decades-Long Struggle with Self-Doubt and Inner Turmoil
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Tim Chan
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Summary
A collection of Sonny Rollins' personal writings, compiled in the 2024 book The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, reveals the celebrated jazz saxophonist's inner struggles and self-doubt. Despite his fame as a Grammy-winning artist and National Medal of Arts recipient, Rollins often questioned the acclaim he received and grappled with a destructive inner force, as documented in his private notes spanning from 1959 to 2010.
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There is within me a force working hard for my own destruction
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