- Sonny Rollins The Solo Album : Soloscope ( part 1 )
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Recorded live at the Sculpture Garden, the Museum Of Modern Art, New York, New York on July 19, 1985.
Recorded live at the Museum of Modern Art Sculpture Garden in the summer of 1985, this disc captures Rollins performing an entire program of unaccompanied improvisation. For some, the rigors of an full-length album of spontaneous composition on solo saxophone may be a bit much. For fans of Rollins, the instrument or the art of extended improvisation however, the disc is a delight. It becomes an exhilarating exercise in concentration to follow the artist's imagination as it whirls through the horn, plumbing its depths, bending its outer limits, flying through blinding glissandos and pulling out quotes to standards, children's nursery rhymes and popular tunes like rabbits out of hats.
Like Coltrane, Rollins played his way through two worlds: the old school of allegiance to melody and song structure, and the postmodern realm of free-form invention. THE SOLO ALBUM weighs more heavily on the latter, as Rollins the songster is deconstructed and patchworked by Rollins the improviser in a process that is fascinating and inspiring to behold.
Solo performer: Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone).
It is his ability to change and build. I won't go overboard but he has saved my life several times over...
This is now my favourite thing. Later, it might not be. Change is constant.
Monumentale. Un capolavoro stranamente non molto conosciuto.
incredible! A tour de force by one of the great masters of jazz and the saxophone!
fabulous.
espectacular!
His rhythmic sensibility is unbelievable
when I listen to this Album, my feeling is that Space is getting Small,.....all those Notes must have more space, fly to the Moon and to the Future. This Album is where Music destroys Space to becomes..... Infinite.
this album also called God him self
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He mimicks the shepard tone at 1.50 :O
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have anybody notest that you can put this album in any jazz backing track and it will sound perfect every time jajajaja
That is bullshit. Backing tracks can be useful tools, but doing such a thing you could get some random funny things but even in a free jazz sense you are missing the INTERPLAY. At least when one play with a playalong, one of the parts is listening the other, supossedly
lw true, I just seached up some random backing track and they kinda go together.
I read an interview in which he said that when he recorded “solo album” at the museum of modern art he had smoked a lot of marijuana. He was in no condition to play, but his manager insisted because a lot of people came to see him. He played extremely mediocre. When he listened to the recording, he was ashamed of himself. But the problem is that he never took his career seriously. A lot of ego, a lot of narcissism, not enough studies on music, on his art, on his journey. Compared to other current musicians who don't have as much notoriety, Rollins doesn't make the cut, sorry.
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.
Good luck with your "discussions" I'm sure someone will engage with you one of these days
@@alexhunter7766 Sonny must have stolen his girlfriend. Or stepped on his toe?
@@strangersname so original
@@alexhunter7766 don't care about the other poeple
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awful
Dude. What is your problem ? What did Mr. Rollins do to you ???
Hi. Anyone knows other horn jazz solo concerts like this, like for example Steve Lacy? Im sure Sonny did others too, this is fantastic !!
Mr.Rollins invited Mr. Lacy to practice with him on the Williamsburg bridge during one of his self imposed breaks from performing. Could you imagine walking across the bridge hearing those two???!!!!
I would recommend Lol Coxhill's 'The Dunois Solos' from 1984
Anthony Braxton, "For Alto"