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CALL: 215-600-1850 www.SellMoreTicketsFast.com To Advertise CALL: 215-887-8880 October-November 2018 Jazz Inside Magazine www.JazzInsideMagazine.com 5 with an organ player named Stan Hunter and he and I did an album INTERVIEWINTERVIEW JI: You did an album on Prestige right? SF: Prestige. Right. Sonny Fortune JI: How did hat opportunity come about? On Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner & More SF: I met Stan in Atlantic City at Club Harlem. I went down there one summer to do the summer By Eric Nemeyer SF: I took lessons down at Wurlitzer School of shows and met the drummer Chris Columbo. It Music for a while there. Then I went to Gran- was on that gig that I met Stan Hunter. Then we off’s. I took theory lessons there started working together. The opportunity came JI: How did Coltrane’s album My Favorite up for a record date and we did this date together. Things in 1959 provide a source of inspiration JI: Over on 18th Street? Those were my only jazz gigs. But by the time for you? those gigs came around I was kind of doing a SF: Yes…I don’t remember where Granoff’s little bit of everything. The gig that more or less SF: I had seen Trane and whatnot a number of was, but I remember Trane had gone there and I turned me around was at a club called The Last times before then but I was kind of somewhat think someone else I can’t recall. But that’s Way Out. I was working for four or five nights a slow to come around. So when I heard that al- where I met the teacher Roland Wiggins. He and week and I had a quartet with a singer. bum, it just kind of for some strange reason, it I actually became good friends. He was a theorist just made everything fall into place in terms of a there at Granoff’s. But I would say that certainly JI: Was that in Philadelphia? conviction for a sound that I had been hearing. my time with Roland Wiggins was very helpful. That just kind of triggered it at that moment and I But the other stuff I would be kind of hesitant to SF: Yes in Philadelphia, down on Chestnut or was kinda sold on that whole thing. try to or how to categorize that—because number Walnut—20th and Chestnut. I remember telling one, it was way in the beginning and everything the band one time, when this gig ends, the band JI: Since you grew up here in Philly, did you was a blur to me in sense and I was just trying to will end. I was actually losing money working have an opportunity to interface with Coltrane figure out how to play the sax. with this band. It was a jazz band. We were work- while he was here or visiting here? Was there a ing either four or five nights at this place that personal connection there? JI: Were there allot of opportunities while you didn’t serve any alcohol. Actually Coltrane was were here in Philly to gig around playing jazz? interested in coming in there because it was a non SF: Well, I was living in Philly and every time he Or, were you taking all sorts of other gigs at the -alcoholic place and at that particular time, he came into town I would go to see him. Then I same time? was interested in getting involved in that kind of would talk to him whenever the opportunity arose scene—getting away from alcohol and what not. before and after that. His mother didn’t live too SF: Well, there was a lot going on but at the same But when the gig ended—we did the gig for two, far from me. She lived on 33rd Street. time because I was married, I felt I had a respon- three, four months or something—it was hard for sibility of trying to make music work and take me to go back to what I had been doing, which JI: Near the park? care of a family at the same time. I had a day job was working with a lot of R&B bands. I got a hold of Kenny Barron to come down to Philly to open at this Last Way Out gig. JI: What year was that Sonny? “… what you do is you SF: This was in the fall of ’66 or ‘67 prepare yourself for the JI; So Kenny had left a few years earlier to go to New York with Dizzy, and I guess his brother Bill opened the door for him. But you had main- tained a close relationship. moment as opposed to SF: I knew him because we were all … there were like these clans of guys. There were the North Philly guys, there were the Germantown preparing for the moment.” guys, there were the West Philly guys and there were the South Philly guys. I mean there were a as well. lot of musicians, a lot of places at that particular SF: Right, north of Columbia Avenue and I lived time.