#SonnyRollins

 I’m not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdakJqKPRDE

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Notebooks of Sonny Rollins 🎷
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/30/the-notebooks-of-sonny-rollins

* towering master of American music
* saxophone virtuoso
* unequaled improviser

The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
by Sonny Rollins, edited/with introduction by Sam V.H. Reese
https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-notebooks-of-sonny-rollins

🎵 Morning ☮-in [2023-Dec-08] Sonny Rollins 🎷
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The great Sonny Rollins! 😀 🎷
What Jazz Is: The many improvisations of Sonny Rollins
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🎵 Morning ☮-in

Sonny Rollins 🎷

Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus -1957 (FULL ALBUM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BBcGemV9mY

Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4DTR0I7xhA

Namaste 🙏 🕊
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The great Sonny Rollins! 😀 🎷

What Jazz Is: The many improvisations of Sonny Rollins
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/sonny-rollins-saxophone-colossus-aidan-levy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxophone_Colossus

Sonny Rollins - 1957 Greatest Hits - Saxophone Colossus (Full Album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqUbSTcBrkI

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It is so fitting that the Sonny Rollins Biography by Aidan Levy is called Saxophone Colossus AND has almost 800 pages.

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#NowListening to #jazz courtesy of #SonnyRollins, #WayOutWest. I love the #Prestige and #Contemporary stuff. For me, West is second only to #SaxophoneColossus: melodic, varied, great musicianship, & proper bite to it. In particular, I love the playing of #RayBrown here.

This 1988 #OJC pressing (I’m assuming it’s #AAA) sounds well rounded with the tone of the saxophone very natural & dynamic. My copy is clean, but there is a dramatic edgewarp on side A.

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