A Jazz Room of One’s Own: Downtown Nonprofit Offers Free Space for Emerging Artists. One of the great stories in jazz involves Sonny Rollins spending 1959-61 practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge, even after he’d released several classic albums. It seemed to be an exercise in myth building, but the reality was that Mr. Rollins’s Lower East Side tenement apartment had thin walls. He named his next album accordingly. 

A Jazz Room of One’s Own: Downtown Nonprofit Offers Free Space for Emerging Artists.

One of the great stories in jazz involves Sonny Rollins spending 1959-61 practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge, even after he’d released several classic albums. It seemed to be an exercise in myth building, but the reality was that Mr. Rollins’s Lower East Side tenement apartment had thin walls.

He named his next album accordingly. 

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