I've seen David and Sonny each so many times through the years. They always deliver. I never care about what people say about artists... I have ears and I can use them. This stuff swung so hard... thanx Dave and Thanks Sonny... I love you man!
Lol not sure what to think of Sanborn's introduction! sort of lame, don't you think? "he doesn't always work alone"?? "he's played with such greats as..."??? Sonny IS a jazz great, right up there with Coltrane and Monk, etc.!!!
@TheSaxMaster100 Yes that is george Duke on keys...he joined the house band for a season...notice Sonny trying to get George to follow him around the 4:00 mark...George got it in the end.
Benjamin David: This is from the great NBC TV show "Night Music" (originally titled "Sunday Night"), which lasted two seasons from 1988 to 1990. Dave Sanborn was the host.
People give Sanborn a lot of shit, and yea much of his own output is close to Dentist's Office music, but this program was great- a chance to showcase truly creative music on network television. And to even play a piece with Newk gives me far more respect for the guy.
I just 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. First of all as a player, 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. 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''. 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... 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? 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. 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...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! 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.
Sonny is way above what David described. An absolute melodic jazz legend.
Sonny Rollins is the 1 hell of a melodic storyteller and rhythmic innovator.
That introduction left a lot to be desired. Sonny Rollins is a legend.
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I've seen David and Sonny each so many times through the years. They always deliver. I never care about what people say about artists... I have ears and I can use them. This stuff swung so hard... thanx Dave and Thanks Sonny... I love you man!
0:52 David Sanborn didn't need that sheet music anyway lol
Improv.
Yep- Prez still lives. My word Sonny- such a gift of a musician.
Lester Young was the president of jazz.
Whether this works or not, they're both fantastically amazing saxophonists with so much talent.
At totally different levels!
Simple yet complex....Guy has been cooking his whole musical life.. Sonny rules!
Sonny Side Up
... awesome energy - Sonny and the crew (incl. George Duke) are burnin' !!!
John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins were burning during their Tenor Madness battle.
I'll be damned...that's George Duke on keyboards!
Duke Ellington and Count Basie were a piano duo.
Seeing Sonny live for me was like seeing Van Gogh's Starry Night. A true legend.. And how about George Duke?
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Looks like George Duke on piano......good old days
Duke Ellington was the jazz pianist.
Thanks for posting this - just great!!
Is it great? It is great!
Thanks so much for putting this up!
UNICO SONNY!!!!
Sonny Rollins is the unique jazz masterpiece.
Sonny's my Hero!
Sonny Rollins is our jazz hero.
Omar on drums....... Yehaaaaaa
Gene Krupa - Drum Boogie
Para Fernando Diaco !!!!!🤩
now that's wot i call "cookin' da books"...wow!!!!
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YES YES YES keepin it real and unique.FUCK RAP
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Lol not sure what to think of Sanborn's introduction! sort of lame, don't you think? "he doesn't always work alone"?? "he's played with such greats as..."??? Sonny IS a jazz great, right up there with Coltrane and Monk, etc.!!!
I thnk he did his best and Sonny didn't seem to mind...
It's so obvious, he didn't need to describe it.
Amen! David was just reading what some dope wrote who didn’t know about Sonny Rollins. He probably apologized to Sonny after the show.
Karla DeVito sang that song on which was heard on The Breakfast Club: We Are Not Alone.
Fuckin'....fuckin'!!
Ceelo Green sang that song.
amazing...
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Cool !!!!
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@TheSaxMaster100 Yes that is george Duke on keys...he joined the house band for a season...notice Sonny trying to get George to follow him around the 4:00 mark...George got it in the end.
RAMBR0 I noticed that too. He got it the last few bars and everyone else joined in too. That was a good moment
fudge!!!!!!! that TONE!! how do folks solo after him??? seriously...
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@BoxOfFrogbit Hell yes. Unmistakably. Thanks for pointing that outQ
nic sonny really let it rip on this one
Downbeat Reader's Poll Awards Show, 1975 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk battle; Sonny Rollins defeat.
cool shoes.. Sonny Rollins..hehehe .. XD...cool Sr.!.. and inspirstion..
Roger Klotz got ketchup on his new suede shoes.
4:18 Whoooaaaaaaaa
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RIP George Duke!
OMG!!!
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check out the woody and you quote at 2:09
Woody Herman was the next Lester Young, but his primary instrument was the clarinet.
Could someone tell me what year this was recorded. Perhaps I did not search back far enough. Thanks
Benjamin David: This is from the great NBC TV show "Night Music" (originally titled "Sunday Night"), which lasted two seasons from 1988 to 1990. Dave Sanborn was the host.
1989
Como se llama el tema que tocan ??
kim
Song? Kim.
@@Frankie-O Very Thanks 💫
The Kardashians are Kim-Possible.
Met david in 90
David Sanborn, David Letterman.
People give Sanborn a lot of shit, and yea much of his own output is close to Dentist's Office music, but this program was great- a chance to showcase truly creative music on network television. And to even play a piece with Newk gives me far more respect for the guy.
Give me each and every one of Sanborns vinals spinning at the dentist....in the lift..... At the Supermarket...... On repeat. 🤔
New Zealand....
He has a great sound, and is a great player. I just wish his records were a little more ... ambitious creatively rather than commercially 😉
hes is just trying to inform the average viewer
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What the music call hello
Adele - Hello
I thought it was Bouncin' With Bud
Weezer did a song about Buddy Holly.
Who is the bassist ??? Thanks
Tom Barney
NOT Charles Mingus, for sure.
Legends #Methuselahsaxwter
Sonny Rollins lets no other tenor saxophonist blow him out of the water.
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Whats song is??
Paco Torregrosa Kim 0:37
Song? Kim.
llolll i knowww
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Old McDonald
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А НА РУССКОМ МОЖЕТЕ ПИСАТЬ ИЛИ СЛАБО?
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I just 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. First of all as a player, 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.
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''. 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...
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? 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.
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...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!
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.
Boring song and whera is David?
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