Like Sonny - The Unique Relationship Between Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane 

So true!

..how is that tune called? sounds fun & interesting.. tia..

Sonny has used the twisting melody motif, that Coltrane used in “Like Sonny”, many times!

@@rbsprods3200 he may have, but the Like Sonny tune was released in 1960, and it was inspired on that solo from the Kenny Durham album from 1957.

@@aljoschahunger tune is My Old Flame from the Kenny Dorham with Sonny Rollins album.

Funny as I was reading your comment, I thought also Wayne, then I saw your mention of him. All greats!!

their music is eternal

@@JazzVideoGuy That captures it !

Glad you enjoyed it!

amen

nice to hear little Bird Jimmy Heath,what a talented family

You're welcome 😊

glad you dig!

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Spot on!!! Bret, you are one Bad Mamma Jamma..You've brought heaps of Joy, Groove and Sanity in music to so many of we aging Beatnik Jazz musicians who grew up in the 50's - 60's. We rode the Bus Downtown and spent our entire allowance on sides. Had some great music shops in Fort Worth. We heard and copied all our Heroes, Bird, Paul Desmond, Sir Roland Kirk, Miles, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Clark, Bill Evans, Jim Hall and especially WES Montgomery. You bring back all those sweet memories... many blessings.

Appreciate the kind words! @@sitarnut

well stated

Merci

My pleasure

That must have been when he lived in Germantown.

Yes, indeed. My piano store was across the street from a deli which Sonny (and everyone else in town) frequented. I had "Saxophone Colossus" in picture window of the store. He was still playing concerts at the time, in his seventies. @@JazzVideoGuy

musically and spiritually

My pleasure!!

The greatest.

You're welcome!

Me, too

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amen

thank you

A lifetime of Trane. Pretty good!

@bluetoad2001 ...'Trane's body was damaged from the heroin and alcohol he was addicted to.

He once gave Monk some "mushroom pills"

WOW!!! I wonder what Monk's experience was like... @@JazzVideoGuy

He had a profound influence on both.

Dexter is the prequel to these guys!

Also, there was a period of time back in the early 50s when Sonny was on gigs with Dexter. In Sonny's autobiography, he acknowledges that he deliberately learned what he could from Dexter. So Dexter was a direct influence on Sonny.

Inteviews from 2007, Coltrane from 1959, Sonny playing in 2006.

you have good taste

The Book indeed Cooked great Texas Tenor, with Rollins and Trane I always felt sorry for Hank Mobley who I thought was a wonderful player and writer

History sometimes self corrects.

There is the John Coltrane quote, "Everyone wants to play like Getz . . . "