Sonny meets Hawk!

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In the early 60s, Sonny Rollins is with John Coltrane, the rising tenor saxophonist... They are even artificially pitted against each other in the press, the two young tenors of the tenor. His spiritual mentor happens to be Charlie Parker but also Coleman Hawkins who gave the tenor saxophone its letters of nobility, reinventing it as a fully-fledged solo instrument. Father and son find themselves together on the stage of the Newport Jazz Festival in 1963. Shortly after, they record an album that has the feel of a summit meeting. Especially in these five minutes and twelve seconds that the first track, the standard "Yesterdays", lasts, a masterpiece. Hawkins, who dies six years later, in 1969, seems to pass the torch to Rollins.