Sonny Rollins, our man in jazz

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
“Which talent would you most like to have?” is one of the Proust questions—the birthday party homework young Marcel first put his name to at 13—that Vanity Fair likes to ask various talents, and when they asked Sonny Rollins he answered (with what must have been the [...]

There stands John Prine

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
So good, Kris Kristofferson said, that he ought to have both his thumbs broken: this would have been about 1971-ish when John Prine was (with Loudon Wainwright and ah, maybe David Ackles or even Elliott Murphy) part of that set of young guitar guys who were supposed to graduate [...]