Un ser humano único y especial, un músico estupendo.
Voy a extrañarlo.
Adiós querido Sonny.

A unique and special human being, a superb musician.
I will miss him.
Goodbye dear Sonny.

#SonnyRollins #Música #Music #Jazz #SaxoTenor #TenorSax #Saxo #Sax

My Personal Music Library Favorites #265 – St. Thomas – Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus #jazz #tenorsax #saxophone #music

https://youtu.be/_YynSucmcQo?si=K3-6iWG1EuliTz-e

#AlternateFridayMusic
May 22 2026
Prompt: Where is my mind?
Wayne Shorter, “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was”

This hashtag will likely be flooded with WIILD and WACKY🤪 selections this time around; gentle reader, take respite here.

This track is by #RogersAndHart which kind of implicitly places it in the Great American Songbook. #WayneShorter recorded this version in 1960 but it wasn’t released until 1974 on his album “Second Genesis.” I encountered it on the fantastic jazz compilation “Either Side of Midnight.”

Beautiful #jazz ballad on #TenorSax in the hands of a master? My key boxes checked. Less clinically: it is lovely.

Checking the lyrics for this exercise, I found they portray a wizened soul looking back on an under-appreciated love in the singer’s clueless (as in the title metaphor) youth, but being unfamiliar with the lyrics, this instrumental version to me had the flavor of being so lost in the object of one’s affection upon first meeting, that suddenly (literal) time had no meaning: You walk in and…where is my mind? Sorry not sorry, Mr. Hart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAgu1zd12a8

The Four Brothers... Together Again! is an album by the saxophonists Herbie Steward, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims and Serge Chaloff, who were collectively known as the Four Brothers, recorded in 1957 for the RCA Records subsidiary Vik label.

In a review for All About Jazz, Marc Myers called the recording "a superb album that shows off the enormous reed work of four seasoned swingers," and wrote: "The saxophonists sounded as one together but went their merry way when playing alone... The emphasis on blended harmonies and Young-like saxes playing together would become the basis for West Coast jazz just a few years later."

A reviewer for Billboard commented: "The blowing is the thing, and the fellows... give fine accountings of themselves." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJag-8hqAo4

#TheFourBrothers #CoolJazz #HerbieStewart #AlCohn #ZootSims #SergeChaloff #Jazz #Music #TenorSax

Sizzlin' is an album by saxophonist Arnett Cobb recorded in 1960 for the Prestige label.

Arnett Cleophus Cobb (August 10, 1918 – March 24, 1989)[1] was an American tenor saxophonist, sometimes known as the "Wild Man of the Tenor Sax" because of his uninhibited stomping style. Cobb wrote the words and music for the jazz standard "Smooth Sailing" (1951), which Ella Fitzgerald recorded for Decca on her album Lullabies of Birdland. - Wikipedia

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

#ArnettCobb #RedGarland #Jazz #Swing #TenorSax #Music #PrestigeRecords

Hadley Caliman is the eponymous debut album recorded by American saxophonist Hadley Caliman in 1971 for the Mainstream label.

AllMusic states "Despite the fact that this isn't the most fully confident release in Caliman's Mainstream catalog it is noteworthy for introducing a very solid and creative voice on the tenor horn ... If it has any real faults, it's ultimately that the leader proves too democratic at his own expense. This serves as an introduction to a fine re-appraisal of one of jazz's more forgotten talents" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgclGy4Wc3E&list=PL83BE75AFBD5C6F74&index=1

#HadleyCaliman #Jazz #BobShad #MainstreamLabel #Music #TenorSax

🎶 ☠️ 🤍 "Suppose there is no home on high."

I want Heaven on this Earth

https://themadmaggies.bandcamp.com/track/heaven-on-this-earth

#Accordion #Guitar #Tuba #Drums #TheMadMaggies #Trumpet #TenorSax
#Trombone
#Music #WomenComposers #Bass #ArtemisII #Atheism

Now listening to some wonderful jazz from Jon Irabagon.

https://jonirabagon.bandcamp.com/album/rising-sun

#jazz #NowPlaying #TenorSax

Frank Wright Trio is the debut album by saxophonist Frank Wright. It was recorded in November 1965 in New York City, released by ESP-Disk in 1966.. On the album, Wright is joined by bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Tom Price

In an article for All About Jazz, Clifford Allen commented:

The opening 'The Earth' starts with a brief vibrato-heavy and bluesy slow theme on unaccompanied tenor that quickly erupts into a frantic screamer of a solo, a mix of buzzing upper-register cries and low bleating honks, occasional recognizable stock R&B phrases making their way into the melange... Unlike Ayler, there is not a significant amount of solo construction, for it appears Wright was throwing together ideas in a spirit of jubilation. The rhythm section is certainly strong and experienced, and are given ample duet room after Wright's solo ends."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfB5JApHKDg&list=RDyfB5JApHKDg&start_radio=1

#FrankWright #HenryGrimes #FreeJazz #Jazz #ESPDisk #Music #TenorSax

🎶 ☠️ 🤍 A traditional tune from the Balkans with an infectious beat.

https://musicshop.themadmaggies.com/track/rumba-tziganeasca

#BandCampFriday #BandCamp #Music #Accordion #Guitar #Bass #Trumpet #Trombone #Tuba #TenorSax #Drumz