Sonny was no threat to anyone—especially other musicians—he never threatened to become “successful.”Despite all the weird things about Sun Ra, in the ‘30s (1930s, not the upcoming 30s), being a vegetarian still made the cut.
Sonny was a genius. He turned us on to Bird and Diz. But he was weird—and for a while, a vegetarian. None of us had seen anything like that before. There was nothing in which Sonny was average.