Sonny is way above what David described. An absolute melodic jazz legend.

I've seen David and Sonny each so many times through the years. They always deliver. I never care about what people say about artists... I have ears and I can use them. This stuff swung so hard... thanx Dave and Thanks Sonny... I love you man!

That introduction left a lot to be desired. Sonny Rollins is a legend.

0:52 David Sanborn didn't need that sheet music anyway lol

Yep- Prez still lives. My word Sonny- such a gift of a musician.

Whether this works or not, they're both fantastically amazing saxophonists with so much talent.

Simple yet complex....Guy has been cooking his whole musical life.. Sonny rules!

I'll be damned...that's George Duke on keyboards!

... awesome energy - Sonny and the crew (incl. George Duke) are burnin' !!!

Thanks for posting this - just great!!

Seeing Sonny live for me was like seeing Van Gogh's Starry Night. A true legend.. And how about George Duke?

Thanks so much for putting this up!

Looks like George Duke on piano......good old days

UNICO SONNY!!!!

Sonny's my Hero!

Omar on drums....... Yehaaaaaa

YES YES YES keepin it real and unique.FUCK RAP

amazing...

Para Fernando Diaco !!!!!🤩

Cool !!!!

now that's wot i call "cookin' da books"...wow!!!!

fudge!!!!!!! that TONE!! how do folks solo after him??? seriously...

Lol not sure what to think of Sanborn's introduction! sort of lame, don't you think? "he doesn't always work alone"?? "he's played with such greats as..."??? Sonny IS a jazz great, right up there with Coltrane and Monk, etc.!!!

@BoxOfFrogbit Hell yes. Unmistakably. Thanks for pointing that outQ

@TheSaxMaster100 Yes that is george Duke on keys...he joined the house band for a season...notice Sonny trying to get George to follow him around the 4:00 mark...George got it in the end.

OMG!!!

Fuckin'....fuckin'!!

RIP George Duke!

cool shoes.. Sonny Rollins..hehehe .. XD...cool Sr.!.. and inspirstion..

4:18 Whoooaaaaaaaa

nic sonny really let it rip on this one

Could someone tell me what year this was recorded. Perhaps I did not search back far enough. Thanks

check out the woody and you quote at 2:09

Como se llama el tema que tocan ??

:O

Legends #Methuselahsaxwter

What the music call hello

Met david in 90

I thought it was Bouncin' With Bud

Who is the bassist ??? Thanks

hes is just trying to inform the average viewer

Whats song is??

llolll i knowww

People give Sanborn a lot of shit, and yea much of his own output is close to Dentist's Office music, but this program was great- a chance to showcase truly creative music on network television. And to even play a piece with Newk gives me far more respect for the guy.

Old McDonald

А НА РУССКОМ МОЖЕТЕ ПИСАТЬ ИЛИ СЛАБО?

I just 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. First of all as a player, 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. 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''. 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... 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? 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. 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...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! 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.

Boring song and whera is David?