Ted Panken Meets Sonny & Roy for Down Beat

An excerpt from Ted Panken’s interview with Sonny Rollins (and Roy Haynes and Christian McBride), which took place in New York City in the late afternoon of Monday, September 17, immediately following the trio’s sole rehearsal for their performance at Carnegie Hall the next day. Panken’s account of the concert — which marked the 50th anniversary of Rollins’s Carnegie debut, and which was recorded for spring 2008 release on the saxophonist’s Doxy label — appears in the December 2007 issue of Down Beat. Video by Bret Primack.