Right now, I just want to get away for awhile. I think I need a lot of things. One of them is time…time to study and finish some things I started a long time ago…I never seem to have time to work, study, and write. Everything becomes secondary to going to work every night and wondering how the band sounds and whether our appearances are okay. (via)

Sonny Rollins, 1958, before he stopped playing in public and started woodshedding on Brooklyn Bridge. A perfect way to announce a break from blogging, except blogging is woodshedding, and there'll be plenty more this year of the usual thing from me, right here at the blog.