When Sonny Rollins Speaks, We LIsten. When Sonny Rollins Plays, We Cheer

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  • Опубліковано 17 лют 2023
  • Kurt Weill's Moritat (Mack The Knife) featuring Sonny Rollins on tenor saxophone, George Duke on Piano, Stanley Clarke on bass and Al Foster on drums, recorded live in Japan, 1981. Interview with Bret Primack 00:00 Music begins 03:00
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    Sonny Rollins is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians of all time. He started playing the saxophone at a young age and quickly gained fame as a musician in the early 1950s. He is known for his creative and explosive playing style, which is heavily influenced by Caribbean rhythms, and has released over sixty albums as a leader. His most famous recordings include "Valse Hot", "St. Thomas", and "Blue 7". Rollins left the jazz scene in 1961 to focus on his own music, but returned in the late 1960s to gain even more acclaim.
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  • @miguelrivera9878
    @miguelrivera9878 Рік тому +4

    "When Sonny Rollins Speaks, We LIsten. When Sonny Rollins Plays, We Cheer". i couldn't agree more

  • @musicbyfriendsforfriends3311

    Great Video! From Sonny’s response to the question to his performance to the audience’s reaction. Some things are right in this world. That’s why we need to “touch” Sonny.

  • @rebeccalevinson193
    @rebeccalevinson193 Рік тому +3

    WOW!! He’s playing Mack the Knife like it’s the Greatest Song ever written! And he’s got the coolest, hippest, funkiest musicians, right there with Him, backbeat and all (Al Foster playing a Back Beat? Really?)! And Kill’n it!

  • @rustynail766
    @rustynail766 Рік тому +4

    Best version of Mack The Knife that I've ever heard! Thanks!

  • @nickpilgrim1966
    @nickpilgrim1966 Рік тому +4

    Wow. The pure creative ecstasy on Sonny's face at the end of his performance. That's one of the most iconic images of a jazzman I've ever seen.

  • @MikeBravos
    @MikeBravos Рік тому +2

    Master

  • @jimmiller241
    @jimmiller241 Рік тому

    A Master

  • @brendaboykin3281
    @brendaboykin3281 Рік тому +1

    Thank you, Sonny and Bret😎🌹😎🌹

  • @jfreijser
    @jfreijser Рік тому +1

    Ahhh, Mack the Knife is just so bloody brilliant .....

  • @adamrafferty
    @adamrafferty Рік тому

    SOnny - one of the absolute greatest!!!! A real hero to me.

  • @jloveyork
    @jloveyork Рік тому +1

    Thank you Jazz Video Guy! You are awesome! I love listening to Sonny speak and play!

  • @johnbrown4568
    @johnbrown4568 Рік тому +4

    Sonny in this interview is very well spoken. Thank you for posting.

    • @JazzVideoGuy
      @JazzVideoGuy  Рік тому +1

      Sonny's a very intelligent, well spoken man.

  • @giacintopiracci
    @giacintopiracci Рік тому

    Intergalactic Treasure

  • @reisserjean-michelakabeeth8551

    Great video.

  • @CarlaRupp
    @CarlaRupp Рік тому +1

    Great!!!

  • @romainbertrand253
    @romainbertrand253 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for posting. We love Sonny. Very inspiring character.

  • @cjgaddy
    @cjgaddy Рік тому +2

    👏👏👏🎤🎷 This is Totally Awesome: the interview and, of course, Sonny’s masterful cut of The Knife. THANK YOU! 👏👏

  • @hank1519
    @hank1519 Рік тому

    You gotta admire a person who can be both humble and extremely well-defined!

  • @cedamoon4049
    @cedamoon4049 Рік тому +1

    Sonny brings the Heat on this one!! As well, the video quality and sound quality are clear and crisp, for something from 1981. I really enjoyed the close-ups of Sonny's face, like you're sitting front row for an unforgettable set. And his bandmates are all smiling ear-to-ear, what a scene, man!

  • @ianbuxton8332
    @ianbuxton8332 Рік тому

    ... AND if course the Goliath PLAYING!! Never has Mack the Knife been so excitingly played .. UNLESS anyone can give us a reference to SOME OTHER Titan.

  • @henridelagardere264
    @henridelagardere264 Рік тому +7

    Listen and cheer, Sonny is here!

  • @annapluskota3247
    @annapluskota3247 Рік тому +3

    🌹

  • @edwardjons8684
    @edwardjons8684 Рік тому +7

    To hear from a guy who achieved what the rest of us would regard as the absolute pinnacle of artistic achievement, and speak with such humility, without pretension, and ‘yeah I still practise’. I hope these videos, the new biography, all the material that has become available so late in his life, has the profound influence it should on future generations of musicians.

  • @trevormaclaren9048
    @trevormaclaren9048 Рік тому +1

    A great interview!

  • @russellkitch4043
    @russellkitch4043 Рік тому

    FANTASTIC....

  • @hivicar
    @hivicar Рік тому +1

    You caught the smile right after that expression at European concert climax!

  • @sipsun8
    @sipsun8 Рік тому

    Thank you Bret! great “colossal” post. We all love the immense Sony. PS I put the video on my Favorites playlist; hope this will help… All the best! maybe ☮️on🌎🌍🌏

  • @ianbuxton8332
    @ianbuxton8332 Рік тому

    Well worth watching a second time!! 👍

  • @LCohenSax
    @LCohenSax Рік тому

    Sonny in all of his magnificence.

  • @ellingtonhilligas
    @ellingtonhilligas Рік тому

    Thank you for posting! So wonderful!

  • @lexo30
    @lexo30 Рік тому

    Sonny Rollins played on a classic Bud Powell session in 1949, when he was 18 years old.
    He may not play anymore, but he's never stopped developing.
    Legend.

  • @dennis524
    @dennis524 Рік тому

    Great player and great human being.

  • @michaelfoxbrass
    @michaelfoxbrass Рік тому

    Simplest chord changes, of which Sonny makes a most creative and enjoyable time! 😊

  • @paulgibby6932
    @paulgibby6932 Рік тому

    So great on "Mack the Knife". Thanks Bret

  • @buyukberber
    @buyukberber Рік тому

    Incredible…!

  • @jacobsinclair1
    @jacobsinclair1 Рік тому

    Classic interview.

  • @mikefarmer7238
    @mikefarmer7238 Рік тому +1

    A,ll tenor players should watch this.

  • @walterhayley7252
    @walterhayley7252 Рік тому

    I "Like Sonny"...

  • @OGStazzy
    @OGStazzy Місяць тому

    3:18 what song is this

  • @robertvanruyssevelt7159
    @robertvanruyssevelt7159 Рік тому

    Jazz will not disappear with Sonny Rollins. He and his contemporaries have inspired young people around the world. Here is a song from his repertoire played (not as a sax number) by a group of young artists from Barcelona: ua-cam.com/video/7D4XkUG_hlo/v-deo.html

  • @arundiasbandaranaike5989
    @arundiasbandaranaike5989 Рік тому

    Plenty of humour!!! I guess Newk has knowledge and insight on his audience, to figure when some excitement can be generated in amongst the serious exploration that he grapples with

  • @superfuzzymomma
    @superfuzzymomma Рік тому

    Where's Sonny living these days?

    • @JazzVideoGuy
      @JazzVideoGuy  Рік тому +2

      Woodstock, New York. Happy to report he has a lovely home that overlooks a large space filled with nature.

    • @hank1519
      @hank1519 Рік тому

      @@JazzVideoGuy Glad to hear it! Thanks for this wonderful video.

    • @superfuzzymomma
      @superfuzzymomma Рік тому

      @@JazzVideoGuy Nothing but good on Sonny! He still gigging? Thanks JVG.

  • @jakezonis17
    @jakezonis17 Рік тому

    This is the shit