{"id":934,"date":"2007-04-28T13:01:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T20:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=934"},"modified":"2007-04-28T13:01:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T20:01:57","slug":"weekend_extra_sonnys_sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/04\/weekend_extra_sonnys_sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Sonny&#8217;s Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Public Radio&#8217;s <em>Weekend Edition Saturday<\/em> included a report by Howard Mandel on Sonny Rollins, who recently founded his own record label, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2006\/10\/cd_15.html\"target=\"_blank\">Doxy<\/a>. In a sound bite, Rollins asked Mandel not to identify him as a corporate executive of a record company. &#8220;Don&#8217;t do that to me man,&#8221; he laughed as he pleaded with Mandel. &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t want to screw anybody.&#8221; Then he talked about the contradiction between corporate thinking and jazz thinking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The corporate culture is anathema to jazz. We don&#8217;t like cookie cutter, everything exactly the same way. We&#8217;re about creation, thinking things out at the moment, like life is. Life changes every minute. A different sunset every night; that&#8217;s what jazz is about. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To hear Mandel&#8217;s profile of Sonny Rollins at seventy-six, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=9701347\"target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Public Radio&#8217;s Weekend Edition Saturday included a report by Howard Mandel on Sonny Rollins, who recently founded his own record label, Doxy. In a sound bite, Rollins asked Mandel not to identify him as a corporate executive of a record company. &#8220;Don&#8217;t do that to me man,&#8221; he laughed as he pleaded with Mandel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-934","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\/934","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=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}