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A review by bethmitcham
Sonny's Bridge: Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins Finds His Groove by Keith Mallett, Barry Wittenstein
4.0
Lovely picture book that focuses on the gap years Rollins spent playing his saxophone on a bridge to ground himself before returning to fame and fortune. The words are lyrical and evocative of Jazz (with some be bops thrown in for extra sauce) but the pictures are the true star, smoky and blue like the music they depict.
Now that the 2019 YA Cybils nonfiction pushed me onto Spotify I try to turn on music when I read a biography of a musician. Reading this to the sounds of "The Bridge" made it even better.
Now that the 2019 YA Cybils nonfiction pushed me onto Spotify I try to turn on music when I read a biography of a musician. Reading this to the sounds of "The Bridge" made it even better.