Jim Hall is one of the most important foundational Bebop/Post-Bop guitarists. It's a very niche list of brilliant players. Sonny Rollins is total beast mode musician - my brain almost shorts out!
Cat´s are really working hard here. It´s Rhythm Changes 4 bars and 4 bars Bb to Ab 1 bar each on the A sections and Rhythm bridge. But they stop the protocol after the drum solo and then it gets really creative! I saw this band in New York when I was 16-Billy Higgins played drums- Now I am 77 and it is still so impressively well rehearsed to the point where they reached a high creative rapport. This is for me really at the the top.
Wow! High-flying invention at super fast tempo. The Saxophone Colossus and his mighty friends: Jim Hall on guitar, Bob Cranshaw on double bass and Ben Riley on drums. Fantastic!
Follow Jim: You don't need to do a lot to sound great, just play what you hear in your head. It'll make you use the good vocabulary at the good time and make you whisper it... Don't think, just do. Thank you Jim. RIP.
@@McClain3000 Believe me, they do in Europe. In fact, Europe is the reason why Jazz history hasn't been white-washed. I know that is a controversial statement in the U.S. But when we start talking about the Jazzmen and the Jazzwomen we could only be talking about a history of a very 'specific people'... and those people look NOTHING like me.
The honking of the cars, the tunes from the car radios ,and all the hustle and bustle that go over Sonny's bridge on a hot New York working day. This is awesome!
Sing along everyone 'I've got Rhythm', then you can start to understand what is going on. Bebop by the masters here, Hall's solo IMHO sounds simple at times but the melodicism and timing are as sophisticated as it gets. There are never any guitar licks or cliched finger mechanics in his playing. Listen carefully guitar guys!
Woow this is great!! I m sure that Sonny Rollins was inspired by the song 'impromptu - instrumental' of the 'Nuit De Saint Germain Des Prés' Album, of Django Reinhardt. Great Song! And Great guitar solo of Jim Hall !!
@fLKommotioN Not sure to whom you're responding - haven't read through all comments - but yours caught my eye while I was listening to Jim and Sonny. I got The Bridge as a kid when it first came out - and thought it was magical but was surprised today when one reviewer said if you only get 2 jazz albums this is the 'other' one - the first one being Kind Blue. Jim is right up there with Tal and Wes as one of the all time great guitarists - Sonny is of course in a league by himself.
I'm 67 yrs old and while Sonny Rollins is absolutely great, at this point in my life I can do without all the frenzy playing. I studied with Chuck Wayne the last to years before he died.and on my first lesson I was coming from a teacher that played really fast and so I tried to impress Chuck Wayne. After a few minutes hearing me play he said "What's your hurry. It's a 45 minute lesson". I never worried about playing fast again
Many of the comments are absurd. This is simply very fast Rhythm Changes. All jazz cats do this one. Mr. Hall shows how to play at this insane tempo and remain very musical. It is very difficult to play guitar at this tempo; a sax player can usually play much faster riffs, that's the nature of the saxophone. It's usually people that cannot do this kind of music that complain about it.
Sonny Rollins is still alive. Turned 92 last month on the 7th, 2 days before my great grandmother turned 94. But he isn't the only living person in the 'Great Day in Harlem' photo; Benny Golson will be turning 94 in January, God willing. I have both of their autographs, LOVELY photos they signed and sent to me.
@Stratifying This is what true communication between 4 different people with different life experiences sounds like. And maybe that's not beauty to your ears because of your own life experiences up until now. I hope your disparaging comments will only be a precursor to taking the plunge and immersing yourself in a kind of music your ears aren't used to...you don't have to become a "jazz snob", just keep LISTENING without judging! And learn to enjoy the music of my all-time greatest heroes!
I've seen some thoughts on Hall's solo so I'm thinking of having a go at transcribing it at some point. Does anyone have any thoughts on his comping? I liked the transitions between comping, guide tones, and single note lines. I can't make my mind up about his time feel, although I might just not be understanding what he is doing with it.
What's cool here is you see Jim Hall playing stuff that most people use a harmonizer to get off later in life he acquiesced to it . There's a record where he plays Saint Thomas and he uses an effect that sounds like a steel drum. The steel drum player Andy was supposed to make the date he didn't show up Jim improvised.
You're right. This is so good. It is almost up to 9,800 views in 2 1/2 years!!! Everyone is just fascinated with this! Probably 842 Jazz Snobs like it, and 8,941 people wish they could get back this 5:15 of their life. And by the way smart guy, I wasn't commenting on You tube. I was commenting on this shit.
+Gabriel Duran Hard bop, verging on free jazz/avant garde, or maybe just old be-bop, or all three. I have same question as you. Maybe style is Sonny Rollins style.
ok everybody."tratifying" play a fender strat with only 5 notes on it: pentatonic scale....with maybe a passing tone( b5) he can play in E and A and have no ears. and he can not do alternate picking, it is his next week lesson.
@@afonsosousa2684 Those early ES175 had neck trouble Jim Hall had Jimmy Daquisto Make him and an ebony finger board. And that was the beginning of a fine romance
I think people are pointing out the stupidity in your post because you're not giving two of the greatest jazz musicians alive the benefit of the doubt. This is clearly the more progressive and extreme side of their music. Both Sonny and Jim are completely capable of playing varied styles within jazz as well as more "understandable" or "easy-listening jazz". Recordings like St.Thomas and Without a Song are evidence of this. You're judging jazz solely on one kind of jazz.
@papersky1 I feel like you don't understand. What I was saying is that this isn't just within the genre, barely; it's a defining trademark of the genre in many fashions. And besides, to say "i like music" with implications that you like it all when really that's not the case at all is an inaccuracy, and isn't made any more true or more correct by the fact that lots of people say it...
All I've given is a laymans' opinion of what this sounds like. Nothing more. I have not attacked the players or their ability, I have only stated my opinion of the music. But instead of defending the "music", some of you have chosen to disparage me instead. Typical liberal tactics. If you can't discuss the issue with any relevant insight or intelligence, you attack the messenger. Your tactics are the same in something as important as politics, or something as meaningless as a You Tube video.
And, like a lot of reactionaries, you're doing the same, Buford. Disparaging. Categorizing, labeling , name calling. Nobody's blaming you for being ignorant, Buford.. You just shouldn't advertise it and give opinions on a form that you're not familiar with. I don't comment on physics videos or gay fashions. whats the point ? that i don't understand it? . I'm out of my depth. Just visit , listen learn shut the fuck up till you have a qualified opinion to give. Why dirty the pool? just go away. " Jazz Snobs like it, and 8,941 people wish they could get back this 5:15 of their life. And by the way smart guy, I wasn't commenting on You tube. I was commenting on this shi
Name any other guitarist who could survive in that company in that era. I can’t think of one. Hall was possibly the only guitarist ever who was highly acclaimed by the (non guitarist) jazz world. Wes was a fine, fine player but not in this league.
@@NeilRaouf Ya not to mention Grant Green and a lot of other guitarists who thrived in a group. But I especially like Grant Green with Joe Henderson on Albums like Solid if you are speaking about being in elite company as a guitar player. Wes and his sessions too, Joe Pass too
You need to get some more albums,George Benson would blow this apart,George Benson and Pat Martino were playing as fast as Sonny and Jim is not in that league imho.Also comparing him against Wes means you haven't heard 'Smokin at the Half note'.
Not taking anything away from Jim,i enjoy his playing here as he struggles with this super fast tempo and plays in half time.Also you don't have to play fast to play fast tempos but it sounds good if you can.
To anybody but a Jazz Snob, that stuff sounds like shit. Using 400 chords with that many overtones doesn't do anything for the song. Maybe they all fit at some extreme end of musical interpretation, but it doesn't mean it SOUNDS good. It is like if you had 4 guys that could all speak 20 different languages, and they used a different language for each word in the sentence.You could say they were very good linguists', very knowledgable in their craft. But it wouldn't make sense to anyone but them
Jim Hall is one of the most important foundational Bebop/Post-Bop guitarists. It's a very niche list of brilliant players. Sonny Rollins is total beast mode musician - my brain almost shorts out!
Jim Hall is such a beast
Sonny Rollins is such a beast
Cat´s are really working hard here. It´s Rhythm Changes 4 bars and 4 bars Bb to Ab 1 bar each on the A sections and Rhythm bridge. But they stop the protocol after the drum solo and then it gets really creative! I saw this band in New York when I was 16-Billy Higgins played drums- Now I am 77 and it is still so impressively well rehearsed to the point where they reached a high creative rapport. This is for me really at the the top.
Wow! High-flying invention at super fast tempo. The Saxophone Colossus and his mighty friends: Jim Hall on guitar, Bob Cranshaw on double bass and Ben Riley on drums. Fantastic!
Follow Jim: You don't need to do a lot to sound great, just play what you hear in your head. It'll make you use the good vocabulary at the good time and make you whisper it... Don't think, just do. Thank you Jim. RIP.
Would that it were that simple!
@@robertmoehle3241 A bit late Mr. Moehle for me to reply but if you can hum - you'd be surprised JUST how sophisticated the licks you can play...
R.I.P. Jim Hall.....the group enters another zone here.
Wonderful video. Thank you.
Bob Cranshaw is doing perfect pizzicato at around 360bpm :-O
That's insane.
Trully a large sized BADASS... I love his work with Lee Morgan... this man knows how to fucking swing!!!.
Just Insane. Could you imagine if we had NPR Tiny Desk level recordings of some of these classic sessions.?
@@g.beeton2918 You nailed it. Bob is an absolute underrated BADASS!
@@McClain3000 Believe me, they do in Europe. In fact, Europe is the reason why Jazz history hasn't been white-washed. I know that is a controversial statement in the U.S. But when we start talking about the Jazzmen and the Jazzwomen we could only be talking about a history of a very 'specific people'... and those people look NOTHING like me.
All men are NOT created equal.
When giants walked the Earth.
Always in our hearts, Jim.
The honking of the cars, the tunes from the car radios ,and all the hustle and bustle that go over Sonny's bridge on a hot New York working day. This is awesome!
This is easily one of the best things on RUclips
Just total ripping
I love the recordings with Sonny and Jim Hall, they're classic and highly overlooked
Happy 90th Birthday Sonny! Still playing, still going strong 🎷 7th September 2020
Happy 92nd to the Colossus! September 2022
Sadly he's not playing anymore.
Saxophone Colossus Thank heavens for your talent.. you're 90 yrs of magic today, your art will live on!!!
I love how Sonny mix's swing with afro cuban
Perhaps the peak of Rollins masterpiece of life? Together with early seventies
and the works just after this with Don Cherry. This is so fantastic!!
Wow I never knew Jim hall could play faster than 120bpm
This is so good! Hall and Rollins 2 of my favorites!
This band is unbelievable
RIP Jim Hall. Your music will live on forever!
This is my favorite album of SR since 1967.
Sing along everyone 'I've got Rhythm', then you can start to understand what is going on. Bebop by the masters here, Hall's solo IMHO sounds simple at times but the melodicism and timing are as sophisticated as it gets. There are never any guitar licks or cliched finger mechanics in his playing. Listen carefully guitar guys!
鬼神!! 火を噴くプレイ!!
Wow! Thanks for sharing
R.I.P. Jim
Great guitarist.
Man I'd love to have attended a jam session with these guys.
Thanks so much for posting.
Woow this is great!! I m sure that Sonny Rollins was inspired by the song 'impromptu - instrumental' of the 'Nuit De Saint Germain Des Prés' Album, of Django Reinhardt.
Great Song! And Great guitar solo of Jim Hall !!
@fLKommotioN Not sure to whom you're responding - haven't read through all comments - but yours caught my eye while I was listening to Jim and Sonny. I got The Bridge as a kid when it first came out - and thought it was magical but was surprised today when one reviewer said if you only get 2 jazz albums this is the 'other' one - the first one being Kind Blue. Jim is right up there with Tal and Wes as one of the all time great guitarists - Sonny is of course in a league by himself.
I love it hen people say Jim Hall couldn’t cut fast tempos...
Thank you for this tune,wonderful quartet! R.I.P great Jim.
本当に素晴らしい。
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
This is what the word Jazz means......
Totally freak, free, awesome......
Beautiful music, thanks
Wow! Holy smokes!
great!
Felices 92 Coloso del Saxofon!!
Mr. Jim Hall always talks about how he "can't play fast". After seeing this clip, I know he's just being modest!
TheJofrica i think he´s not playing fast
Argenis Lobo It's pretty fast to me. And it's faster than a lot of Mr. Hall's other work
Argenis Lobo What are you kidding? The tempo on this is crazy!
Shai Rosenfeld i mean, its fast, but for be a rhythm changes, its not too fast, the most of this are very very fast
Hey, if you can play like Jim on that vid, I salute you.
I appreciate this upload!
One of the greats.
Sonny! My hero!!!xx
That was tough🤯
I'm 67 yrs old and while Sonny Rollins is absolutely great, at this point in my life I can do without all the frenzy playing. I studied with Chuck Wayne the last to years before he died.and on my first lesson I was coming from a teacher that played really fast and so I tried to impress Chuck Wayne. After a few minutes hearing me play he said "What's your hurry. It's a 45 minute lesson". I never worried about playing fast again
Many of the comments are absurd. This is simply very fast Rhythm Changes. All jazz cats do this one. Mr. Hall shows how to play at this insane tempo and remain very musical. It is very difficult to play guitar at this tempo; a sax player can usually play much faster riffs, that's the nature of the saxophone. It's usually people that cannot do this kind of music that complain about it.
bravo for posting this video
👍👍👍 Great sounds!
Rocks!
Good lord, these guys can play!!
Jim and Sonny two departed greats. Contrasting styles.
Sonny Rollins is still alive. Turned 92 last month on the 7th, 2 days before my great grandmother turned 94.
But he isn't the only living person in the 'Great Day in Harlem' photo; Benny Golson will be turning 94 in January, God willing.
I have both of their autographs, LOVELY photos they signed and sent to me.
Holy moly.!
it's amazing that these guys are still playing in 2011. think they'd be up for a reunion concert?
No.
A estos niveles, mas que poder tocar rápido o no, es si el músico lo desea en su estilo. Simple.
In between jamming with Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer I wonder if Mr. Hall could find time to prepare my federal and state tax returns...
Snark
no, but his wife could shrink your head.
@@rillloudmother sorry, i retired.
@@djangowoof my name is question um, who are you?
@@rillloudmother his wife
That was some next level shit, wow....holy shit
love this raga musik bra
👏🏿👏🏿
Day-um!
Rip Jim 😢 🎸
I didn’t realize Sonny could circular breathe….I should’ve known👍🏽
if u get jim halls sheet music it will basicly teach u jazz. The hard work and time in it will be all u though.
@music22945 Listen to the drummer at the bass-solo!
Thanks for pointing that out,...hadn't noticed that before!!
@Stratifying This is what true communication between 4 different people with different life experiences sounds like. And maybe that's not beauty to your ears because of your own life experiences up until now. I hope your disparaging comments will only be a precursor to taking the plunge and immersing yourself in a kind of music your ears aren't used to...you don't have to become a "jazz snob", just keep LISTENING without judging! And learn to enjoy the music of my all-time greatest heroes!
What's that thing attached to Hall's guitar?
Great performance.
Capo, but he is not using here.
ﾛﾘﾝｽﾞと長く苦楽を共にしたﾍﾞｰｼｽﾄ､ﾎﾞﾌﾞ･ｸﾗﾝｼｮｳ､ｼﾞﾑ･ﾎｰﾙの神業、文句のつけようのない"橋”（ﾗｲヴ)､猛烈ﾀﾝｷﾞﾝｸﾞのｿﾆｰ! #jazzm
I've seen some thoughts on Hall's solo so I'm thinking of having a go at transcribing it at some point. Does anyone have any thoughts on his comping? I liked the transitions between comping, guide tones, and single note lines. I can't make my mind up about his time feel, although I might just not be understanding what he is doing with it.
Leaving space . As JH said that has already done been done so well by Freddie Greene.
What's cool here is you see Jim Hall playing stuff that most people use a harmonizer to get off later in life he acquiesced to it
. There's a record where he plays Saint Thomas and he uses an effect that sounds like a steel drum. The steel drum player Andy was supposed to make the date he didn't show up Jim improvised.
OMG
Damn!
holy ..sh..
Bob Cranshaw is a beast!!!!
😃🌾💙🌱
Anybody knows what is that strange contraption on top of Jim Hall’s guitar neck ? Some kind of open string mute ?
It's a "string "dampener", helps to limit feedback on hollow body guitars. Rarely see them now.
@@buddymaxwell6881 thanks !
You're right. This is so good. It is almost up to 9,800 views in 2 1/2 years!!!
Everyone is just fascinated with this! Probably 842 Jazz Snobs like it, and 8,941 people wish they could get back this 5:15 of their life. And by the way smart guy, I wasn't commenting on You tube. I was commenting on this shit.
This rips
when sonny breathes ????? incredible long phrases
Circular breathing.
Excuse me but if i may ask does anyone know what the style they are playing in
+Gabriel Duran Hard bop, verging on free jazz/avant garde, or maybe just old be-bop, or all three. I have same question as you. Maybe style is Sonny Rollins style.
thank you for the answer i have a project do tommorow and im looking for a song to go with it that is Be bop i might just use this
+Gabriel Duran It's definitely Ska or Reggae.
it's bebop with some hard bop features
Croatian funk
ok everybody."tratifying" play a fender strat with only 5 notes on it: pentatonic scale....with maybe a passing tone( b5) he can play in E and A and have no ears. and he can not do alternate picking, it is his next week lesson.
What is that on the nut/head of Jim Hall's guitar??
That's a Van Eps string damper. It's meant to prevent sympathetic vibration from the open strings and reduce noise.
@@afonsosousa2684
Those early ES175 had neck trouble Jim Hall had Jimmy Daquisto Make him and an ebony finger board. And that was the beginning of a fine romance
@papersky1
little bit of nonsense to holistically enjoy the genre yet express hatred for something well within such; alas, such is today.
yo people. What year is that record?
64?
anything but casual
I think people are pointing out the stupidity in your post because you're not giving two of the greatest jazz musicians alive the benefit of the doubt. This is clearly the more progressive and extreme side of their music. Both Sonny and Jim are completely capable of playing varied styles within jazz as well as more "understandable" or "easy-listening jazz". Recordings like St.Thomas and Without a Song are evidence of this. You're judging jazz solely on one kind of jazz.
@Stratifying
funny, you use 105 words to really says a 3 words sentence: "i am stupid"
thank you stratifying for you youtube space polution
Why it sounds avant-garde to me ???
Why does it sound like everyone is playing a different song?
Jazz
@papersky1
I feel like you don't understand.
What I was saying is that this isn't just within the genre, barely; it's a defining trademark of the genre in many fashions. And besides, to say "i like music" with implications that you like it all when really that's not the case at all is an inaccuracy, and isn't made any more true or more correct by the fact that lots of people say it...
Son, it's called fucking rhythm changes
BOB CRANSHAW.
I think, JIM is great in all ...:)
@Stratifying
400 chords.....
Yes, it is just my opinion. It sure seems to get a lot of people's panties in a wad though.
Stratifying.....your name denigrates a fine Fender guitar. Don't think for a second that number of views equates to talent.
All I've given is a laymans' opinion of what this sounds like. Nothing more. I have not attacked the players or their ability, I have only stated my opinion of the music. But instead of defending the "music", some of you have chosen to disparage me instead. Typical liberal tactics. If you can't discuss the issue with any relevant insight or intelligence, you attack the messenger. Your tactics are the same in something as important as politics, or something as meaningless as a You Tube video.
And, like a lot of reactionaries, you're doing the same, Buford. Disparaging.
Categorizing, labeling , name calling. Nobody's blaming you for being ignorant, Buford.. You just shouldn't advertise it and give opinions on a form that you're not familiar with. I don't comment on physics videos or gay fashions. whats the point ? that i don't understand it? . I'm out of my depth. Just visit , listen learn shut the fuck up till you have a qualified opinion to give. Why dirty the pool? just go away.
" Jazz Snobs like it, and 8,941 people wish they could get back this 5:15 of their life. And by the way smart guy, I wasn't commenting on You tube. I was commenting on this shi
Name any other guitarist who could survive in that company in that era. I can’t think of one. Hall was possibly the only guitarist ever who was highly acclaimed by the (non guitarist) jazz world. Wes was a fine, fine player but not in this league.
?No, better not say dumb crap like that its not smart
wes was defenitely in this league. and joe pass and pat martino.
@@NeilRaouf Ya not to mention Grant Green and a lot of other guitarists who thrived in a group. But I especially like Grant Green with Joe Henderson on Albums like Solid if you are speaking about being in elite company as a guitar player. Wes and his sessions too, Joe Pass too
You need to get some more albums,George Benson would blow this apart,George Benson and Pat Martino were playing as fast as Sonny and Jim is not in that league imho.Also comparing him against Wes means you haven't heard 'Smokin at the Half note'.
Not taking anything away from Jim,i enjoy his playing here as he struggles with this super fast tempo and plays in half time.Also you don't have to play fast to play fast tempos but it sounds good if you can.
They might sound ok if they weren't all playing different songs in different keys.
I don't have to understand the chemical makeup of chit, to know that it is chit.
Stratifying I don't have to know anything else about you to know that you're a fucking moron who knows nothing about music.
To anybody but a Jazz Snob, that stuff sounds like shit. Using 400 chords with that many overtones doesn't do anything for the song. Maybe they all fit at some extreme end of musical interpretation, but it doesn't mean it SOUNDS good. It is like if you had 4 guys that could all speak 20 different languages, and they used a different language for each word in the sentence.You could say they were very good linguists', very knowledgable in their craft. But it wouldn't make sense to anyone but them
Stratifying become one of us
I'm not a jazz snob for sure, but I like it.
Speak for yourself