What an incredible life & legacy, the great saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins has passed away at age 95. Sonny 1st appeared on a Blue Note record date in 1949 as part of Bud Powell’s Modernists & later recorded 4 tremendous Blue Note leader albums in 1956-7 https://t.co/SVwF9WQb80
Patti Smith has never been just a voice on a stage, she has always been a voice in the storm.
The godmother of punk does not separate art from truth, nor poetry from resistance.
For decades, she has stood where it is uncomfortable to stand, speaking when silence would have been easier. Her words are not decoration; they are defiance.
Her music is not escape; it is confrontation.
In a world that often looks away, Patti Smith has chosen to look directly at the pain of Palestine, not as a distant conflict, but as a human wound.
Through her performances, her poems, her presence, she reminds us that art is not neutral.
Art is a weapon against forgetting.
When she sings, it is not only melody, it is memory. When she writes, it is not only beauty, it is witness.
She carries the names, the stories, the struggles of those who are too often unheard, and she refuses to
let them disappear into silence.
Art is resistance, and Patti Smith embodies this truth with every breath, every verse, every note.
She stands as proof that an artist can be more than an observer: they can be a force, a conscience, a flame that refuses to go out.
In her world, poetry does not bow.
It rises. ❤️
❀ #FreePalestine ❀
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In a rare joint performance of "People Have the Power," Patti Smith was joined by Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe and others at Democracy Now!'s 30th anniversary celebration.