Sul sito Ann Arbor.com è apparso un curioso articolo su un bambino di appena due anni e mezzo, grande appassionato di musica jazz e particolarmente affascinato da Sonny Rollins, che ha avuto la possibilità di incontrare il grande maestro durante le prove del concerto tenuto nella cittadina americana.
Chances are, at age 2½, Ann Arbor youngster Noah Garfield may be jazz great Sonny Rollins’ youngest fan.
Noah’s even met the musical icon.
Just before Rollins’ first concert of his 80th birthday tour this April in Detroit, Noah’s mom, Catherine Marquardt, wrote to Rollins’ webmaster Bret Primack about the possibility of Rollins meeting her son.
“I was just amazed they said yes. They were really nice people. … I think they were highly entertained by the story.”
Marquardt and her son, as well as her husband, Mike Garfield, who live on Ann Arbor's near west side, met Rollins after sound check. “He was very gracious,” Marquardt said of the saxophone great. “He said he had read my letter and was very touched by that. … Sonny signed his CDs for him.”
That her son seems to have developed such a fascination for Rollins and his music comes as a surprise to Marquardt and her husband.
“We’re pretty shocked by it. It’s all self-driven,” Marquardt said. “It’s not like we’re great jazz fans and tried to get him interested in jazz. We found this kids’ book (“This Jazz Man”by Karen Ehrhardt) about different jazz musicians, and at some point he wanted to know what their names were and what the instruments were.
“We played him what little jazz we had and he just loved it. For the first few months, he listened to just 2 Sonny Rollins CDs over and over again. Finally we went to the library because we thought we might expand his horizons. That’s mostly what he wanted to listen to. He knows all the other jazz musicians, and he will occasionally listen to them, but it is mostly Sonny Rollins.”....
“We weren’t playing jazz around the house. He liked it all on his own,” she said of Noah, adding that they bought a toy saxophone for their son and it is a constant companion. “He only blows one note on it, but he carries it around and spins around and dances with it. It’s so funny — now he’s mimicking Sonny Rollins’ playing and watching his shadow in the mirror.”
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Chances are, at age 2½, Ann Arbor youngster Noah Garfield may be jazz great Sonny Rollins’ youngest fan.
Noah’s even met the musical icon.
Just before Rollins’ first concert of his 80th birthday tour this April in Detroit, Noah’s mom, Catherine Marquardt, wrote to Rollins’ webmaster Bret Primack about the possibility of Rollins meeting her son.
“I was just amazed they said yes. They were really nice people. … I think they were highly entertained by the story.”
Marquardt and her son, as well as her husband, Mike Garfield, who live on Ann Arbor's near west side, met Rollins after sound check. “He was very gracious,” Marquardt said of the saxophone great. “He said he had read my letter and was very touched by that. … Sonny signed his CDs for him.”
That her son seems to have developed such a fascination for Rollins and his music comes as a surprise to Marquardt and her husband.
“We’re pretty shocked by it. It’s all self-driven,” Marquardt said. “It’s not like we’re great jazz fans and tried to get him interested in jazz. We found this kids’ book (“This Jazz Man”by Karen Ehrhardt) about different jazz musicians, and at some point he wanted to know what their names were and what the instruments were.
“We played him what little jazz we had and he just loved it. For the first few months, he listened to just 2 Sonny Rollins CDs over and over again. Finally we went to the library because we thought we might expand his horizons. That’s mostly what he wanted to listen to. He knows all the other jazz musicians, and he will occasionally listen to them, but it is mostly Sonny Rollins.”....
“We weren’t playing jazz around the house. He liked it all on his own,” she said of Noah, adding that they bought a toy saxophone for their son and it is a constant companion. “He only blows one note on it, but he carries it around and spins around and dances with it. It’s so funny — now he’s mimicking Sonny Rollins’ playing and watching his shadow in the mirror.”
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