The trombone player of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Moises Nogueras, is still considered a new boy. He’s been a member for 23 years. Singer Charlie Aponte has now clocked up 41 years – nearly two-thirds of his life – in the Gran Combo. Yet he, too, was once…
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At 83 Sonny Rollins remains a tall man. In the 1960s he was positively imposing, a quality echoed in the sound of his tenor saxophone. His chin sprouted a tufty little beard at this time, and this combined with his hooded eyes and size to imply a monumentalism and impassivity…