Sonny Rollins: What Jazz Is, and What Being a Jazz Musician Means To Me

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Sonny Rollins will go down in history as not only the single most enduring tenor saxophonist of the bebop and hard bop era, but also as one of the greatest contemporary jazz saxophonists of them all. His fluid and harmonically innovative ideas, effortless manner, and easily identifiable and accessible sound have influenced generations of performers, but have also fueled the notion that mainstream jazz music can be widely enjoyed, recognized, and proliferated.

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@theopaopa1 6 жыл бұрын

1:39 "jazz is a force of nature, it's a feeling, it's a sense of liberation, sense of communing with nature, with higher, an abandon of your spirit, a sense of hope that life can be better, that things can be better, it's a sense of happiness ..."

@SayersPipes 8 жыл бұрын

My favorite musician in the WORLD, period !! I What a guy, he even replied to a question I asked him once online.. What a sincere and beautiful person !! bless u Sonny !!

@madams6796 9 жыл бұрын

"I'm optimistic about the Soul....so I'm optimistic about Jazz..."

@bobwilson360 7 жыл бұрын

I saw Sonny several times between 1972 and 2000. He never failed to leave me exhausted from sheer amazement at the power and beauty of his music. He'll always be my favorite tenor sax player. As much as I love Coltrane, Sonny is my guy.

@CATMAN777123 10 жыл бұрын

he speaks about Jazz with a wonderful sense of dignity

@Pirrelli8 11 жыл бұрын

Never will I forget Sonny, I met him back in 1988, and I got his autograph, and sadly, some how I lost it, his message to me was, signed, "keep blowing Sonny Rollins", and I never learned how to play jazz, I am forever haunted by the fact that I never completed my goal, this was my hero, and I let him down. Maybe one day I will pick up a Saxophone again. I still have the ticket stub from 1988, this is my Sonny Rollins story.

@holyburn 13 жыл бұрын

Brett, You have done so much for us...all of my gratitude to you.

@ndodro 11 жыл бұрын

Deeply touched from Sonny's words as everyone who discovered the deep simple beauty of his music. Thanks.

@flintlong2937 4 жыл бұрын

I saw him live at the Hollywood Bowl in the seventies. He was on the bill with all my favorites, Peterson, Ella, SuperSax, many more. But Sonny was outstanding that evening. His playing just...does it for me. I love this guy.

@chrishamilton4999 9 жыл бұрын

100% authentic man, hey. I had no idea. Thanks for the video(s) ... a great service to the world.

@JazzVideoGuy 9 жыл бұрын

Chris Hamilton There's no one more authentic than Sonny Rollins.

@Avirothbard 7 жыл бұрын

That cadence at the end..couldn't stop smiling and giggling..highest vibration . 😎❤️

@taildragger53 12 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this! He's a beautiful person..a COMPLETE human being because he has addressed his spiritual side as well as his physical. Some musicians fake it but Sonny is for real. Totally connected.

@edovonvelde3194 4 жыл бұрын

Sonny is the real legend alive

@Jazzman8100 11 жыл бұрын

His words are so inspiring. Sonny will forever be my biggest hero

@Rockyhambone1 4 жыл бұрын

13 thumbs down? Really? Who could possibly give Sonny the thumbs down? He’s such a humble man and probably the greatest living jazz improvisor we have.

@pdn-vd5om 7 жыл бұрын

Wonderful encouragement. 'To do the best you can do.'

@kellotherig 10 жыл бұрын

Truly a Legend,,

@boomerang905 3 жыл бұрын

I finally got to see Sonny. I've known him all my life but now l see him. He's right. Jazz speaks to my soul, not to my ears.

@SokratisVotskos 7 жыл бұрын

He reminds me of a very familiar person in my life, I believe he's closer than anyone to our souls through his music and words of true wisdom.

@duncanmeyer2670 6 жыл бұрын

Heard Sonny at Carnegie Hall in '89 and he played for 3 hours straight without a break!!! And each tune was more intense than the last and ended in an explosion. And after the concert the whole audience was high for hours afterward off the experience. Something going on there beyond the music.

@JazzVideoGuy 6 жыл бұрын

When he got going, look out.

@countbrando9772 Жыл бұрын

I saw and heard Sonny right around that time at Carnegie Hall with Brandon Marsalis and he took Brandon to school that night. Powerful.

@santukakoty 10 жыл бұрын

i love his playing....but i dare to comment this...he is a divine...

@christopherbraig4266 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making this series. It means a lot.

@tek3920 2 жыл бұрын

11 years too late but this video geniunly meant the world to me…thank you

@camdor 10 жыл бұрын

Man your video collection rocks, thanks so very much for all this incredible spirit of art and life.

@zaksherzad 10 жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing this great work!

@tomkirk6942 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@LeFruFru 11 жыл бұрын

These vidoes are just what I've been looking for, THANKS!

@ntouched 9 жыл бұрын

Sonny is the "Real Deal"!!!!

@ggmusicdrums 5 жыл бұрын

It's great to hear Jazz being defined and explained by one of its grand masters. Thanks, Bret.

@SimAlex20000 8 жыл бұрын

this is a beautiful video.

@a.e.r.7745 6 жыл бұрын

Inspiring. I wish I could meet him once again, it's been a few decades since. Thank you for the encouragement to aspire to practice playing flute, or bass, or just be grateful to know Sonny is a distant relative.

@Baduil 11 жыл бұрын

bless your soul JazzVideoGuy, greetings from Argentina, thanks a lot.

@akinseye 11 жыл бұрын

go it. smoke gets in your eyes. thanks for the posting, sonny is spittin' straight fire. zig zag zig

@michaelthompson6452 6 жыл бұрын

I'm so grateful that you posted this video. I sincerely thank you Jazz Video Guy.

@JazzVideoGuy 6 жыл бұрын

So glad you like.

@iscream22 11 жыл бұрын

Great video! I love Sonny Rollins

@DarkMoonCreations 11 жыл бұрын

LEGEND.

@jonathaneffemey944 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@izoraneita1381 2 жыл бұрын

Jazz is a force of nature. I can hear the sounds of earth moving in rhythm and feel the wind blowing sometimes it's genital and sometimes it's hard. When the wind is just right, I hear the birds coming to eat and I get excited about the fish then after it's on the hook i exhale.

@brendaboykin3281 3 жыл бұрын

Thanx, Bret. Encouragement. Baba Sonny, yeeeeeesssssss😎

@joaquimshakaful 4 жыл бұрын

uau! Thank you for this!

@didierrobin7520 6 жыл бұрын

Gratitude !

@lefujyou 2 жыл бұрын

One of the Icon's....The one and only".........inspiration!.....Lefuj

@JazzVideoGuy 2 жыл бұрын

you got that right

@georgedoughly8682 3 жыл бұрын

I Love JAZZ! Sonny is 1 of the all time Greats 🎷

@JazzVideoGuy 3 жыл бұрын

yup

@JazzVideoGuy 14 жыл бұрын

@claptonfan1000000 Thanks for the kind words. Stay tuned, more cool videos coming soon.

@Bugera369 13 жыл бұрын

5:00 Pop Goes the Weasel haha

@estebanvenegas89 4 жыл бұрын

HEY HAHAAH didnt listen that at first

@godfather12m 14 жыл бұрын

Yeah jazz is the best music ever made

@Hoopermazing 14 жыл бұрын

@MCgoogles1000 You really needed someone to explain that to you? Wow!

@guiladshmaya1 11 жыл бұрын

wow

@TheBasirKarim 6 жыл бұрын

Would you please tell me the name of the tune he's playing here? I know I know it, but can't recal the title.

@barflytom3273 5 жыл бұрын

smoke gets in your eyes

@JazzVideoGuy 12 жыл бұрын

@grunt12394 Thanks so much.

@docoftheworld 9 жыл бұрын

whats the piece he is playing in the first couple of minutes? I remember it but cannot remember the name! HELP

@JWSTOO 9 жыл бұрын

Smoke Gets in your Eyes

@docoftheworld 9 жыл бұрын

***** Thanks a lot!!

@lornaharris4912 7 жыл бұрын

Smoke get in your eyes❤️

@AlexChuKHGuitar 6 жыл бұрын

smoke gets in your eyes

@normantrombon 6 жыл бұрын

They...asked me how I knew...that my love was true... I, of course, replied...something deep inside.. smoke gets in your eyes... or something along those lines.

@ashrafilm 13 жыл бұрын

@MCgoogles1000 he could be trying to say that in previous lives when there was no emanicipation for his people in particularly the african / carribean they was no chance of absolute freedom for expression, there was no voice, in this life since his birth there is the opportunity since freedoms were denied previous, there is the chance now to express and voice concerns and discuss and state through music, he does it perfectly.

@JazzVideoGuy 14 жыл бұрын

@MCgoogles1000 A reference to reincarnation.