"The Bridge": a real bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge, where it seems that Sonny Rollins was forced to practice so as not to disturb the neighbors. But also the bridge intended as a symbol of overcoming a troubled period, marked by uncertainty, such as to keep him completely inactive for two years.
That this great interpreter of the tenor sax was plagued by doubts, especially of an artistic nature, can be understood by peeking into his biography, from which emerges a large number of contacts and influences undergone (and perfectly assimilated) since he was very young.
They range from the traditional master of the 40s Coleman Hawkins to the revolutionary Ornette Coleman, and it was probably the meeting with the latter, promoter of the absolute freedom of improvisation and not only (free-jazz), the most shocking, the one that forced him to take a long pause for reflection from which he would emerge triumphantly with "The Bridge" (1962).
SR practicing a top the Williamsburg Bridge... photograph by David McLane, New York Daily News
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