# sonny (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover sonny. Page: Feed: --- ## [Ray Charles: The Great Ray Charles](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/ray-charles-the-great-ray-charles) _2026-08-19 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Ray Charles ## [Venna: VENOLOGY](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/venna-venology) _2026-08-18 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Venna VENOLOGY (2021) ## [Celebrating the Lives and Legacies of Ike Quebec and Duke Pearson](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/celebrating-the-lives-and-legacies) _2026-08-17 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Happy posthumous birthday to the legendary Ike Quebec and Duke Pearson! ## [Celebrating the Lives of Oscar Peterson, Mal Waldron, and Bill Evans](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/celebrating-the-lives-of-oscar-peterson) _2026-08-17 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Oscar Peterson and Mal Waldron were born less than 24 hours apart in August 1925: Peterson on the 15th, Waldron on the 16th. ## [Ron McClure: Seeing Miles Davis and Meeting Coltrane—An Extra Chapter](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/ron-mcclure-seeing-miles-davis-and) _2026-08-15 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ \[The well-known bassist Ron McClure is my friend and neighbor on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. ## [Celebrating the Living Legend Pat Metheny on his 72nd Birthday](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/celebrating-the-living-legend-pat) _2026-08-12 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Born on this day in 1954. ## [Sonny Sharrock: Black Woman](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/sonny-sharrock-black-woman) _2026-08-11 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Sonny Sharrock ## [Wes Montgomery: Boss Guitar](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/wes-montgomery-boss-guitar-1963) _2026-08-10 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Wes Montgomery ## [Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Jack DeJohnette](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/celebrating-the-life-and-legacy-of-0aa) _2026-08-09 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Born on this day in 1942. ## [Wardell Gray with Billy Eckstine & Sonny Criss: An Unissued Radio Broadcast!](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/wardell-gray-with-billy-eckstine) _2026-08-09 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ There is a substantial website, by Stuart Varden and our friend James Accardi, devoted to the beloved saxophonist Wardell Gray (1921-1955). If you click on the discography tab there, you will see an annotated listing of every recording of Gray. A number of items, mostly isolated numbers from radio broadcasts, are marked “unissued.” Today you will get to hear a complete broadcast that has never… ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FxioF2v52b9e) _2026-08-09 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Abbey Lincoln](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/celebrating-the-life-and-legacy-of-a8c) _2026-08-06 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Born on this day in 1930. ## [Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Louis Armstrong](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/celebrating-the-life-and-legacy-of-3c7) _2026-08-04 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Born on this day in 1901. ## [Clark Terry: The Happy Horns of Clark Terry](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/clark-terry-the-happy-horns-of-clark) _2026-08-03 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Clark Terry ## [New Playlists Available](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/new-playlists-available-748) _2026-08-02 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Happy Sunday ☀️. ## [Freddie Hubbard Audio Interview with Dan Morgenstern, 1 of 2 (+Bonus)](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/freddie-hubbard-audio-interview-with) _2026-08-01 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ (For paying subscribers, below you’ll find the Downbeat issue of December 1, 1966 where the printed version of this interview appeared, along with an article on Johnny Hodges and a blindfold test with Bill Cosby—long before anybody knew what we now know about him.) ## [Celebrating the Living Legend Kenny Burrell on his 95th Birthday](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/celebrating-the-living-legend-kenny) _2026-07-31 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Happy 95th birthday to the legendary Kenny Burrell! ## [Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Hank Jones](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/celebrating-the-life-and-legacy-of-440) _2026-07-31 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Born on this day in 1918. ## [Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, & Sonny Rollins: Sonny Side Up](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/dizzy-gillespie-sonny-stitt-and-sonny) _2026-07-30 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ In December 1957, Dizzy Gillespie set a trap disguised as a studio session. ## [Shabaka and The Ancestors: Wisdom of Elders](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/shabaka-and-the-ancestors-wisdom) _2026-07-28 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Shabaka and The Ancestors ## [Roy Hargrove: Family](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/roy-hargrove-family) _2026-07-27 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Roy Hargrove ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xs2AVRaLj6NX) _2026-07-27 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [Sonny Rollins, In Memoriam: The Rarest Print Interview](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/sonny-rollins-in-memoriam-the-rarest) _2026-07-25 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ With the recent passing of Sonny Rollins (1930-2026), we have lost one of the great masters in the history of music. ## [Ramsey Lewis: Solar Wind](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/ramsey-lewis-solar-wind) _2026-07-24 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Ramsey Lewis ## [Ahmad Jamal: Tranquility](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/ahmad-jamal-tranquility) _2026-07-23 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Ahmad Jamal ## [Horace Silver: 6 Pieces of Silver](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/horace-silver-6-pieces-of-silver) _2026-07-22 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Horace Silver ## [Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Sonny Clark](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/celebrating-the-life-and-legacy-of-260) _2026-07-21 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ Born on this day in 1931. ## [The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out](https://allthingsjazzoriginal.substack.com/p/the-dave-brubeck-quartet-time-out) _2026-07-20 · All Things Jazz · All Things Jazz_ The Dave Brubeck Quartet ## [Stuff Smith Performs & Talks on Paul Whiteman's Show, Unissued—Guest Post by Anthony Barnett (+Bonus Audio)](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/stuff-smith-performs-on-paul-whitemans) _2026-07-19 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ (Paying Subscribers, you will find a rare Stuff Smith 8-minute radio broadcast at the bottom, featuring wild violin and Jonah Jones’s flamboyant trumpet.) ## [Tadd Dameron & Fats Navarro: A Complete Recording Date w Unissued Takes & A Mistitled Song, 2 of 2 (+Bonus Transcriptions)](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/tadd-dameron-and-fats-navarro-a-complete-b9a) _2026-07-11 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ (Paying Subscribers, your bonus this time is a book of 42 Fats Navarro solos, transcribed by Boston-based trumpeter Peter Kenagy. Even for non-musicians, transcriptions are helpful as guides for following the recorded music.) ## [Tadd Dameron & Fats Navarro: A Complete Recording Date with Unissued Takes, 1 of 2](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/tadd-dameron-and-fats-navarro-a-complete) _2026-07-04 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ These materials were uncovered by the late researcher and radio host Phil Schaap (1951-2021), during a period when he was working in the Savoy Records archives. ## [Jack Teagarden Audio Oral History, 4: Boyhood Photo & Tales of Wingy Manone (+Bonus Book)](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/jack-teagarden-audio-oral-history-2b9) _2026-06-28 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ (For Paying Subscribers, you will find below a PDF of the complete 274-page autobiography of Wingy Manone, a book that is very entertaining as well as historically valuable!) ## [Ask the crowd: AI or not (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Jor3yfov4OQe) _2026-06-28 · **Sponsored**_ Get a transparent verdict from verified humans via web, RSS, or API. ## [Charlie Parker: Dating His Solo Recording of "Honey & Body"—Guest Post by John Purcell, with Carl Woideck](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/charlie-parker-dating-his-solo-recording) _2026-06-20 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ \[John Purcell is a Boston alto saxophonist with a lifelong interest in Charlie Parker and his music, and a Founding Member of this Playback. ## [Ornette Coleman: Rare Print Interview with John Litweiler, 2 of 2](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/ornette-coleman-rare-print-interview-cda) _2026-06-14 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ Last time we read the first part of this interview of Ornette Coleman by John Litweiler, a jazz journalist based in Chicago.