Table of Contents
Part 1
Chapter 1 St. Eustarius (1864-1930) 3
Chapter 2 Harlem (1930-1938) 9
Chapter 3 The Hill (1938-1944) 24
Chapter 4 The Street (1944-1946) 45
Chapter 5 Annapolis (1946) 45
Chapter 6 The Monastery of San Juan Hill (1946-1947) 72
Chapter 7 Goof Square (1947-1948) 85
Chapter 8 Professor Bop (1948-1949) 103
Chapter 9 Chicago via Montreal (1950) 118
Chapter 10 Birdland (1951) 127
Chapter 11 Carvin' the Rock (1952) 152
Chapter 12 Collectors' Items (1953-1954) 158
Chapter 13 Hackensack (1954) 172
Chapter 14 The Beehive (1954-1955) 180
Chapter 15 Brown-Roach Incorporated (1955-1956) 196
Chapter 16 Saxophone Colossus (1956) 219
Chapter 17 I Remember Clifford (1956) 227
Chapter 18 Way Out West (1957) 247
Chapter 19 A Night at the Village Vanguard (1957) 266
Chapter 20 The Freedom Suite (1958) 283
Chapter 21 The Road (1958) 307
Chapter 22 Finding the Bridge (1959-1960) 317
Chapter 23 The Bridge (1960-1961) 339
Part 2
Chapter 24 After the Bridge (1961-1962) 363
Chapter 25 Sonny Meets Hawk (1963) 393
Chapter 26 Now's the Time (1964) 422
Chapter 27 Ronnie Scott's (1965) 442
Chapter 28 89 East Broadway (1966) 463
Chapter 29 Who Is Sonny Rollins? (1967) 484
Chapter 30 Sandeepany Sadhanalaya (1968) 499
Chapter 31 Musart (1969-1970) 511
Chapter 32 Satchmo Love-mo (1971) 523
Chapter 33 Next Album (1972-1973) 533
Chapter 34 The Cutting Edge (1974-1975) 552
Chapter 35 The Way I Feel (1976-1977) 568
Chapter 36 Don't Stop the Carnival (1978-1979) 583
Chapter 37 The Stones (1980) 600
Chapter 38 Passing the Torch (1981-1983) 613
Chapter 39 Who by Fire (1984-1989) 634
Chapter 40 Here's to the People (1990-1996) 662
Chapter 41 Old Flames (1997-2012) 682
Chapter 42 The Big Picture and the Little Picture (2012-) 707
Acknowledgments 717
Notes 727
Index 729