{"id":1838,"date":"2009-10-08T10:01:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T17:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2009-10-08T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T17:01:22","slug":"other_places_rollins_on_way_ou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/10\/other_places_rollins_on_way_ou\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: Rollins On &#8220;Way Out West&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Myers, the resourceful and indefatigable king of the verbatim interview, posts a <em>JazzWax<\/em> conversation with Sonny Rollins about one of Rollins&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWay-Out-West-Sonny-Rollins%2Fdp%2FB000000YIQ&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">most unusual and successful albums<\/a>. An excerpt:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/Rollins Way Out West-thumb-120x120-10571-thumb-120x120-10572.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Rollins Way Out West.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/Rollins Way Out West-thumb-120x120-10571-thumb-120x120-10572-thumb-120x120-10573.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>JW<\/strong>: How did you pick the songs?\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<br \/>\n<strong>SR<\/strong>: All the songs I knew. By going to the movies so much as a child in the 30s, I was tuned in to Western popular music themes. Even today, people credit me for having an encyclopedic knowledge of what&#8217;s called the American Songbook. Included in there are Western songs, and Country music, too. When I was offered the date by Les (Koenig), I said, &#8220;Let&#8217;s make a concept album about the West,&#8221; which would evoke my feelings and the whole Western thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rollins talks about how the famous William Claxton cover photo in the desert came about, and whose idea it was. To get the whole story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.JazzWax.com\/2009\/10\/interview-sonny-rollins-part-2.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Myers, the resourceful and indefatigable king of the verbatim interview, posts a JazzWax conversation with Sonny Rollins about one of Rollins&#8217;s most unusual and successful albums. An excerpt: JW: How did you pick the songs?\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8 SR: All the songs I knew. By going to the movies so much as a child in the 30s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}