Sonny Rollins Plays the Bridge - Hardcover

by Gary Golio (Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator)

"Jazz icon Sonny Rollins found an inspired spot to practice his saxophone when his neighbors complained"--

Author Biography

Gary Golio is a fine artist, musician, and psychotherapist. He is the author of Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson's Journey to the Stars and the New York Times bestseller JIMI: Sounds Like A Rainbow--A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix, as well as many other award-winning books. He lives in Briarcliff Manor, New York.

James Ransome is the illustrator of many award-winning picture books, including The Creation (by James Weldon Johnson), which won a Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, and Let My People Go (by Patricia McKissack), winner of an NAACP Image Award. His other books include This Is the Rope (by Jacqueline Woodson), Young Pele (by Lesa Cline-Ransome), and Sky Boys (by Deborah Hopkinson). He lives in upstate New York with his wife, author Lesa Cline-Ransome, and their family.