St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins) - Chad LB, Wayne Tucker, Noah Kellman, Ben Tiberio, Michael Piolet 

So right before we recorded this one, I told the guys (as a joke) $5 for anyone who turns the top of the chorus into minor instead of major. What I didn't expect was Noah to actually do it twice. One instance was pretty slick! The other, well... you'll have to hear it for yourself. Chad LB Standard Sessions Vol. 31 St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins) Chad LB - Tenor Saxophone Wayne Tucker - Trumpet Noah Kellman- Piano Ben Tiberio - Bass Michael Piolet - Drums Equipment: Nexus Select Saxophone Nexus Edge Mouthpiece Nexus Oracle Ligature Nexus Elite Reeds www.nexussaxophones.com Download Chad's latest improvisation resources at: www.jazzlessonvideos.com/downloads Sign up for the waitlist to study with Chad through the Chad LB Text Lessons Studio! www.jazzlessonvideos.com/text-lessons Mentorship - Weekly interactive masterclasses and unlimited re-streaming access with some of the finest names in jazz! Sign Up: www.jazzlessonvideos.com/mentorship Get live coaching from Chad and our team of Jazz Gym Trainers: www.jazzlessonvideos.com/thejazzgym Tour dates: www.chadlb.com/shows

Iv'e listened 4 times now Noah's solo is so good, i love it.

I love how every young jazz band has one guy in the pleated and pressed trousers and one guy rocking a tank!

Noah Kellman🔥🔥🔥🎹

Muito bom , from Brasil!!!

Even listening through my broken phone speaker this is totally vibing ❤

Always loved this song in the background of "WORKING GIRL" when they crash the Trask daughter's Caribbean theme wedding. You guys did an awesome rendition!

very high performance standard..guys ❗ To your continued growth to the highest heights !! 🙏🏼

OMG! Do you all know others? Noha Kellman is one of my favorit pianist teacher on youtube (jazz piano is my first instrument). Happy to ear both in the same time. Again you are all insane ❤

Pianist is consistently incredible

3:52 the tone with the note choice is so good

Good energy, everyone sounds lovely; your rhythm sections are always on point! Love and gratitude to all of you✌🏾🙏🏽💖🤗

I loved this

Dang, wonderful stuff all around! Thanks for uploading this treat for us!

It sounds amazing keep it up!

Love it!

That was great fun, Chad, especially that final cadence!

Great great quartet and the muzik! Greetings from Jazzman Kuala Lumpur.

So excited to get to see your concert tomorrow!!

Love the trumpet and piano solo ❤ 😎👌

Sick❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 lines as always

Very nice drumming

Killer as usual! Funny ending!

Very nice solos on tenor and drumstick

Sonny Rollins was great at half octave. Such a hard technique

Eres el mejor ❤ Mi ejemplo a Seguir

Finally

Suns out, guns out!

❤

Definitely Clifford Brownish on the trumpet! ❤

1:55 - 3:22 Intricate ligature of notes by Noah )))

....Yiiiiihaaaa !!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗

you guys are really Primo. Where are you from? Would love to catch you live.

Cant believe you guys got twomad on the drums

Nobody stank's harder than the guy who just finished their solo

Не глядя лайк

Nice to see the left side of pianist for a change - the dark side of the moon we never get to see

First rate!

Does anyone know which mics are infront of Chad and Wayne?

Just curious, are you playing in your attic?

The best thing is to play in trio, drums, bass, saxophone, no, wait for the pianist, no, wait for the trumpet, it's boring...❤️🎷

My flagelot cours is cooming pleas reackt

Nexus one - no F# key. It isn't easy to get altisimo G without it on tenor. Personally I want more keys, not less.

I listened to a 10h French podcast radio show on Sonny Rollins (yes, 10x 1h, covering 1951-2001!!!). A torture, but I'm like that, I dive into an artist and I listen to everything, or almost. To have my own opinion. My opinion of Rollins is that he seems very overrated to me. As a player/improviser First of all as a player/improviser, he does not seem to me better than Johnny Griffin, Sonny Stitt, Roland Kirk, Phil Woods, Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Hank Mobley... but enjoys a much greater notoriety... and unjustified in my opinion. Ok he plays well, but not better in my opinion than the musicians above. Listen to Eternal Triangle which puts Rollins and Stitt together. Here they are VERY evenly matched technique wise but it is Rollins who is the more famous today. There is a lot of study done on Rollins' solos and they are generally accepted to be examples of strong overall thematic construction and development. This somewhat implies that others just play randomly. I'm not entirely convinced by that argument. If you like it, its a strength, if you think its an excuse for repetition, you'd think not. As a composer At the level of the composition, he did not compose anything, everyone knows that his hit ''St Thomas'' is a Caribbean folklore already recorded by Randy Weston in 1955 under the title ''Fire Down There''. St Thomas is an example of cultural transference. It is infact originally The Lincolnshire Poacher. An old english folk tune. It was taken to the Carribean presumably on the slave ships but possibly even earlier by the pirate ships (appropriate given its title). It gets transmuted into a Carribean Folk tune and then Rollins recalls it from his childhood being sung by his mother and renames it after the Island. I had assumed St Thomas was what his mother called it, but the Ted Heath Band, a British Big Band of the 1950s had a big(ish) hit with 'The Lincolnshire Poacher' done presumably as a 'ripost' to St Thomas. His ''Tenor Madness'' is a composition by Kenny Clarke published in 1947 under the title ''Rue Chaptal''. His other compositions from the 50s... well, Oleo, Airegin etc... it can in no way be compared to the compositions of Trane, Bird, Monk or Shorter... One thing that always struck me that I've heard no one else mention is that the Alfie theme is merely a reworking of the intro to 'Singing In The Rain!' Sound and artistic vision I find this a curious aspect. Early on, in the 50s his sound was distinct enough but it became more distinctive later. It is an odd sound for tenor but its one I hear more and more players now using. I'm not quite sure how its done or if there is a physiological reason for it. I have found it to be an aquired taste. Moreover, his playing and his sound are terribly degraded after 1966 (36 years). Something happened on that bridge, he lost his mind. He seems to have been traumatized by the arrival of Ornette, Trane, Ayler... In the 60s he tried to be freer than Ayler, more calypso/blues than Ornette, and more mystical than Trane, but without succeeding because so superficial... Then in the 70s/80s he tried his hand at funk, disco... with really ridiculous and corny results... Did he want to be funkier than James Brown himself? More disco than Chic and Nile Rodgers? On ''SAIS'' from the ''Horn Culture'' album, one example among many, just picking up a random piece between 1966 and 2001....It's a shame. He plays out of tune, out of rhythm, with an absolutely disgusting sound. It is a lack of respect towards himself, the other musicians and the listener. No normally constituted musician would have agreed to let this recording be released. The problem with Rollins is that EVERYTHING IS LIKE THIS after 1966. He even said himself that he was high on marijuana when he recorded his solo album ''Soloscope'' at the Museum of Modern Art. from NYC...Also listen to the result, it's ridiculous and disrespectful towards the listeners... Ego and money Also, on the radio show, they say he was paid today's $300,000 for himself to record the Nucleus album (listen to the result!!!!), and that for his concerts, his Financial claims were unrealistic, only big festivals could afford it. He played with the Stones but didn't want to tour with them because, according to Mike Jagger himself, he wanted too much money! I am not making anything up here. In a blindfold test published in downbeat in 2006, he doesn't recognize ANY saxophonist, even taking James Carter for Don Byas! Totally mind-blowing and revealing! Conclusion In conclusion Sonny Rollins is for me the archetype of a narcissistic complacency encouraged by the fans and the milieu which has placed him on a throne since 1956 and his (very average) album ''saxophone colossus''. You have to be quite arrogant to glorify yourself as a ''saxophone colossus'' at 26 years old when BIRD had just died the previous year. -------------------------------------------------------- I posted this on reddit/jazz and got hundreds of insults regarding: 1) the size of my ass, 2) the size of my brain, 3) the size of my penis 4) about the fact that I would be ignorant 5) on the education received by my parents 6) about the fact that Rollins would have fucked my mother 7) about Rollins fucking my wife 8) about the fact that I will be jealous I said 'yes okay' but back on topic: sonny Rollins is not so great. No response on the subject. I was finally banned for life from reddit/jazz for posting this text.