Sep 19, 2026 · 30 min · 8 segments
On the September 19 WBGO Journal, we celebrate the life and music of Sonny Rollins and we hear from Grammy winner Eric Roberson
Eric RobersonGuestDoug DoyleHostHey, Dave,
how you doing there,
man? Good, good.
I'm so pleased and happy to talk to you.
I mean, I'll try not to bore you with too many, you know, worshipful fan questions and comments, but it's going to be hard to resist that.
Well, how you been, man? My brother, my brother.
It's good, man.
I haven't seen you in so long, man.
But I've been hearing good things about you every now and then I see you.
appearing someplace, and man, that's wonderful that you're still playing and carrying on your quest for love and beauty and all the good things.
Yeah, well, it is a quest, isn't it? It's really a process, what we do.
I mean, and it's spiritual.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
One of the things I learned from you is that jazz is really the art of the now.
And practicing is a spiritual and physical exercise to free the mind and the body.
And I learned that from you.
Wow,
I'm really struck by the sense of process and the sense of that, you know, that life and music is a process and that you never... get to the end of it.
I mean, you know, the path becomes the thing itself that's meaningful.
It's not the goal.
It's the, you know, you're always reaching for something.
And I think to me, that's what's come across in your music a lot.
I hear this, there's always this probing sense, you know.
Hey, Dave,
how you doing there,
man? Good, good.
I'm so pleased and happy to talk to you.
I mean, I'll try not to bore you with too many, you know, worshipful fan questions and comments, but it's going to be hard to resist that.
Well, how you been, man? My brother, my brother.
It's good, man.
I haven't seen you in so long, man.
But I've been hearing good things about you every now and then I see you.
appearing someplace, and man, that's wonderful that you're still playing and carrying on your quest for love and beauty and all the good things.
Yeah, well, it is a quest, isn't it? It's really a process, what we do.
I mean, and it's spiritual.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
One of the things I learned from you is that jazz is really the art of the now.
And practicing is a spiritual and physical exercise to free the mind and the body.
And I learned that from you.
Wow,
I'm really struck by the sense of process and the sense of that, you know, that life and music is a process and that you never... get to the end of it.
I mean, you know, the path becomes the thing itself that's meaningful.
It's not the goal.
It's the, you know, you're always reaching for something.
And I think to me, that's what's come across in your music a lot.
I hear this, there's always this probing sense, you know.
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