Sonny Rollins Sextet live in Munich (1992) 

Horizonless Musical Brilliance Unrestrained!

I am speechless in awe. What a Master musician and artist. Mr. Sonny Rollins..what a inspiring person.

Oh man an infinite stream of creativity beauty and love. Its so great it isnt even about technique or style anymore its even moved beyond that. God just turns on the spigot and out of the horn it comes! And it's unbelievable how through the years it just keeps getting better and better. Long live Sonny!

His music has accompanied me for more than forty years.

Greatness! It is a pity he can’t play anymore. I hope he’s happy in his new life.

A Master of his Art, reaching new heights continuously, and offering it to his audience. Such love and joy. Thank you much Maestro. Forever grateful.

Sonny Rollins: An All-Time Heavyweight of Tenor Men

Nobody could blow a ballad like Sonny. Depth of feeling, on and on

unbelievable! Both techniques and improvisational ideas!

Awesome. Long Ago And Far Away, maybe trading fours' world record, without being repetitive nor boring at all, and no bragging. Just joy. The definitive lesson about motivic and conversational improvisation. Hypnotic.!

International treasure. He don’t know no let-up. Brilliant. Thanks for posting.

I SHOULD CARE is a popular song by A.Stordhal/P.Weston/Sammy Cohn published in 1944. First appeared in the MGM film Thrill of a Romance, 1945 WHERE OR WHEN is from the Rodgers/Hart 1937 Musical Babes in Arms

Always wonderfully refreshing.

Formidale,me quedo sin palabras.Grande sonny! Le vie en bruxelas,en el Palacio de bellas Artes,mas o menos en esa epoca. Impresionante! Que pedazo de artista!

It's a lot of W.I. soul in this Master of the tenorsax.

Il Signor Sonny suonava con tale brillanza. Un proprio genio. Che un originale! Aveva così tanto dire. Un preferito mio. Dio lo benedica.

That "I Should Care" hit a spot and had me weeping like a baby.

Genius of the saxophone 🎷 Sonny!

Lovely. Therapeutic vibrations.

SONNY ROLLINS, está no Pantheon do Jazz há muitos anos!!! Sua Versatilidade, Improvisação melódica, pitch e técnica, o colocaram lá!!!😃😃😃😃

¡¡GRACIAS MAESTRO!!,Desde Barcelona (España).

God...I just love it!.......

Senyor Sonny Rollins és vostè, meravellós!

Greatness, yes, no doubt!

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️💪💪💪🔥🔥👽👽Sonnyyyyyyyyyyyy !!!! Gracias por existir, Maestro !!!!

The song "Here's to the People" is 32 bars with 4 additional bars for the drums. Sonny took 15 chorus's of his solo 32 X 15 and then ended the song .that's 480 bars!!!!

love it

Master of masters.❤

This man ;s music is pure genius,

From South Africa, damn you rock Sonny, I played you live shew at Newport Jazz festal on repeat for 3 days.the third or second, had people jumping dancing

Prelijepo pozdrav bog od barba Šime iz Zadar nice bravo extra music N1

IMPRESIONANTE !!!!! No existev mss que nunca más que siempre..

'The thing about Sonny is that when he didn't like what was happening on stage, he would say so but not specifically. Well, not always. Before Sonny, I had played with more free musicians, like Oliver Lake and Michael Gregory Jackson. I listened to Dave Holland, Anthony Braxton, I loved this interaction with the leaders. You could hear it in my playing. Sonny didn't want that. Sometimes, if I was a little too present, he would signal me to return to my place as bassist in the rhythm section. Generally speaking, it wasn't that accurate. It was up to you to figure out what was wrong and find a solution. This is why many musicians called him old school. Sometimes it was very frustrating when me and the other members of the group didn't understand what he wanted. For example, during a tour in Japan. The group consisted of Sammy Figueroa on congas, Mark Soskin on piano, Clifton Anderson on trombone, Al Foster on drums. We were playing “The Cutting Edge.” Sonny does his solo and sometimes he misses an eighth note. Me, I wonder if I go with Sonny or if I stay with Al. Does the rhythm adapt to Sonny or will Sonny adapt to us? The situation became very uncomfortable on several occasions. Once we were on a plane, Sonny came back from business class to see me and handed me a paper. He had written: “Just play the ostinato.” OK! Despite this, the problem was not resolved. I asked Al if it was me. He told me it was Sonny. In fact, when you play, you are listening to both your inner self and the band. Sometimes you may have an absence. I ended up dreading playing this piece. As he left the stage, Sonny was furious. Sammy once tried to very diplomatically say that the problem was with him, but not explicitly. This was the last tour Sammy did with Sonny for many years. He never said why. He later fired Mark and me. We learned that he was playing a concert at the Bottom Line in New York with another bassist and another pianist. We were out of the band for three and a half years, from 1981 to 1983. And then, in the summer of 1984, he called us back and asked us to come back. Did this have to do with what happened with “The Cutting Edge”? I never asked him Jerome HARRIS, jazzmagazine, France, 2015

SONNY. Eu te amo. Vida longa.

Fantasticooo

Saudações de Maputo em 2020, granda som!

Sonny Rollins at his best

My personal HERO‼️😎🎶🎵 He is the first saxophone giant I tried to copy🤣💦 God bless you🌈🌝🍀

I had the honor of seeing him on a good night in the 80s. Boston- concerts on the common.

Me encanta sonny y este tema.

Bom demais!!!!!!

Let's face it, no-one blows hip tenor like Sonny and no-one would after 'trane left the straight path... Personally, as one who used at least one of Sonny's arrangements in every tiny straight-ahead date I had (personally I overused his calypso-style 'i'm old fashioned' with the ocean cruise feel) I can assert that Mr Rollins is and was the greatest interpreter of a melody in the Jazz idiom and I owe him big time. From his first lines over that super first chorus which set up the major arps and altered tones he will use , to the total un-use of the rest of the band as soloists, he struts his stuff. I love you Sonny ! great post thanks

I should care...great! Tennessee Waltz..this old dance hall piece in Sonnys version a real groovy song, isntit?

Es mi sax preferido

♥

Guitare et piano 💗

Bravísimo

When we hear Sonny play that solo on "Here's to the People" we are witnessing the pinnacle of 100,000 years of Homo Sapiens evolution. Sure, our species has done lots such as traveled to outer space, built grand edifices, etc. And we've had Mozart, Bird, Beethoven, Ellington - all fabulous assets to our time on Earth. But our species has not achieved anything *better or more important* than what Sonny does here. Amazing!

An all time for ever always Stop

Rollins and Getz Two giants of creativity . They made the world a happier place.

Sonny.

Le géant au chaussures de velours...

Qué comelón, sonny rollings..

Le boss

朝起きてすぐこれを聞いたが、最高に気分がいい。ご機嫌なライヴ動画。

OMG! Friggin' A...

So good. Just need a good drink à joint and mother nature :)

Where or When - Miles Davis?

sin aguen sabe porque el trapo negro en el cuello ?

Excellent for Hawaiian party

6:19-6:53 6:30 and 6:44

well, when sb. like sonny plays 1:30h "all my little ducklings" in circles - then it´s modern art the utmost.

I saw Rollins at Massey Hall with Al Foster on drums. He delivered a year’s worth of Jazz in a couple of hours. I prefer Rollins to Trane-generally speaking. Rollins is as sweet as Tupelo Honey. He doesn’t need to warm up because he’s always got sunlight in his belly.

CREDITS ERROR! I should Care conp.:Sonny Rollins???? Axel Stordahl and Paul Weston .

一曲目、サックス以外のソロも聞きたかったな。

It would be an extra if the sidemen are named when these videos are posted. Some are recognizable. But others not so much.

Saxophone Colossus

the trombone in another video was filler

tiene un capitulo del jazz con su nombre !!

🎷📯👍👋😁💯

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WTF!!!

miles davis did not write where or when

I just listened to a 10h European podcast radio show on Sonny Rollins (yes, 10x 1h, covering 1951-2001 !!!). My opinion of Rollins is that it seems very overrated to me. First of all as a player, he does not seem to me better than Johnny Griffin, Stitt, Roland Kirk, Phil Woods, Lateef ... but enjoys a much more important reputation ... and unjustified in my opinion. Ok he plays well, but not better than the musicians I mentioned. In terms of composition, he did not compose anything, everyone knows that St Thomas is a Caribbean folklore already recorded by Randy Weston in 1955 under the title Fire Down There. His other compositions from the 50s ... well, Oleo, Airegin etc ... this can in no way be compared to the compositions of Trane, Bird, Monk or Shorter ... also, his playing and his sound are terribly degraded after 1966 (36 years). It seems that he was traumatized by the arrival of Ornette, Trane, Ayler ... In the 60's he tried to be more free than Ayler, more calypso / blues than Ornette, and more mystical than Trane, but he didn't. did not succeed. Then in the 70s / 80s he tried to be funky, disco ... with really ridiculous and cheesy results ... Did he want to be funkier than James Brown himself? Also, in the radio show they say that he was paid current $ 300,000 for himself to record the Nucleus album (so listen to the result !!!!), and that, for his concerts, his financial claims were unrealistic, only the big festivals could afford it. He played with the Stones but didn't want to go on tour with them because, according to Jagger himself, he wanted too much money! I mean, I'm not making anything up here. In my opinion, he should have remained what he was before, a disciple of Bird at the Tenor, and quit at the age of 40 to leave a quality job, and without trying to follow fashion. Thank you for not insulting me because I have documented myself on Rollins and I like to have constructive discussions without being attacked on my person.