Sonny Rollins with Jim Hall (March 23, 1962) - Jazz Casual
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Sonny Rollins with Jim Hall (March 23, 1962)
Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone); Jim Hall (guitar); Bob Cranshaw (bass); Ben Riley (drums).
1. The Bridge
2. God Bless the Child
3. If Ever I Would Leave You
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The interview shows Rollins as a serious reader and thinker via his vocabulary and sentence structure. What a gift he was to the music!
I'm so thankful the Saxophone Colossus is still with us today.
@@chuckm4540 'Worktime' [1955] is a great album. Completely undated, incredibly swinging. The Muse was in the room. What a pleasure.
I think Sonny and the guys could keep this up all night long and still swing us along!
Posts like this make youtube great.
Thanks for posting this - I’m a huge Rollins fan and the 60s were the apex of his playing. You can already hear the influence of Ornette Coleman here (as you can in Coltrane). Meanwhile Rollins continued to stretch Charlie Parker’s style to breaking point - something no one else really persisted with at this level of musicianship and a very different evolutionary path from Coltrane and Miles. It’s fascinating to see how these three giants of hardbop went off in different directions from a common origin.
I’m pretty sure this is my favorite music video on RUclips ever. Thanks for posting.
what a great performance, so natural and full of soul, great music and great musicians ! thank you for sharing it !
Some of my favorite music out of the sixties
Sonny was still going strong doing his THING well into the 2000s . I saw him at a concert in Austin in 2010 playing a few of his tunes but mainly doing more recently styled latin rhythms with two sets of drums, a trombone and guitar. The man never stood still in his music.
Killer! Nice interview too.
Marvelous. Magnificent. No words measure up.
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still love it!
Wow!
Gold
Love Ben Riley
That band. Whew. Great players playing great.
agreed, he was so great.
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Very Definitely!
God Bless the Child 12:19
What’s that thing on his guitar?
the string mute mounted on his headstock? same thing as a fret wrap but from 40 years earlier.
Could be a capo?
A Van Epps string damper. It prevents feedback by dampening the open strings.
Wahnsinn
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.
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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.
You are still spamming this exact same comment on every Sonny Rollins performance video on youtube. It’s the behaviour of someone with an obsessive mental health disorder. Please stop for your own good if nothing else. I dont condone the disgusting comments you have recieved, but seriously you need to stop.
Saxophone Colossus very average, ha ha ha
Rollins bad, Brecker great. Bird bad, Konitz great. Roach terrible, but Rich a genius. I think I understand now!
Shocking that a jazz player recorded HIGH ON MARIJUANA! That explains everything.
fucking racist