AUM Fidelity

! Congratulations to Matt Shipp and publisher on Jazz Journalists Association 2026 Jazz Award :
"Book of the Year: History, Criticism and Culture"

If you haven't already picked this very fine volume up, we have it on our site, along with some very sweet direct-only bundle options.

Words from Matt himself up here..
"my book ''Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings '' is book of the year in the Jazz Journalist Association Awards for books on Jazz; History, Criticism and Culture . I would like to thank the Jazz Journalists Association -- my awesome publisher Autonomedia and Yuko Otomo for her fantastic introduction to the book which is a piece of literature until itself -- Hoping that the audience for the book continues to grow --thank you"

Will the circle be unbroken.

What words can though many shall be written on a tenor saxophone Legend who disavowed that labeling; who always said he was still working on it, still practicing, still trying to get better; to get closer to It.

If any reading this ain't yet, highest recommendation to full dig on record: The Bridge & East Broadway Run Down.

Later, I got intimate with Rollins' Freedom Suite; at the time David S. Ware interpolated that extended work on record, extending and exquisitely bringing it into the 21st century anew with his Quartet.

As a very young man, David introduced himself to Sonny, who graciously asked that he play for him. On hearing him play, Sonny took young David under his wing, playing together at his home for a spell.

Sonny taught David circular breathing technique in that time. That he had also begun including meditation as part of his daily practice would prove to be an elemental lifelong lesson as well.

The next life that Sonny Rollins' spirit inhabits will assuredly bring voluminous blessings to fellow sentients sharing that new life. Just as he did here on Earth; spanning centuries.