I'm going to state the obvious: Sonny Rollins was born to play the tenor sax, and we are privileged to hear it.

@mariadapenhaterra8057

4 жыл бұрын

Attire

@stoyanfurdzhev

2 жыл бұрын

It doesn't work the other way round.

lOVED JAZZZALL MY LIFE AND AT AGE 83, STIL ENJOYING IT AS MUCH AS EVER. THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS. sORRY ABOUT CAPITAL LETTERS,

@thekeygod9810

2 жыл бұрын

May you please share some other songs like this with me?

@ronaldstrange8981

2 жыл бұрын

@@thekeygod9810 Most certainly. My pleasure. 1) CHRIS BARBER...Le Martinique. 2) BUNNY BERRIGAN...Can't get started with you. 3) STAN GETZ...Desifinado. 4) SAINT LOUIS BLUES MARCH...Perfidia... 5) KEN COLYER...Postman's lament. Hope you enjoy, Kind regards to you.

@thekeygod9810

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronaldstrange8981 Thankyou man !! You don’t know how much help you’ve been !!

@ronaldstrange8981

2 жыл бұрын

@@thekeygod9810 -Thank you so much for your courteous reply. If you enjoy them, I will happily recommend some more, but, please remember, "one man's meat is another ones poison". Regards.

@stephanlarsen8169

2 жыл бұрын

I Man dig it. Jah Herb. I jus 51. Some people grow old other jus grow Cold. Ok. I got a coal train to catch. 🚆

There Will Never Be Another You, indeed, Sonny

Sonny's improvisatory explorations are beyond genius....he is more spontaneous and free and yet he is also one of the few masters like Monk who never abandoned the melody during his solos. Sonny took tunes like this and especially the tune "Three Little Words" and played them more times than anyone who ever lived and yet, he displays fresh new ideas each time no matter how many times he has played that song. An absolute improvisational master and saxophone giant. (A colossal one). Of course, Alan Dawson and N.H.O.P. are both masters and are truly amazing as Sonny's accompanists. Alan is way too underrated in the music world.

When I studied with Alan in 1976 he said Sonny Rollins was his favorite person to play with. It shows! Thanks. RIP!

@user-yr5jt4ui9y

Ай бұрын

❤

Alan Dawson has to be one of the very most understated drummers in any category. Stylish, ergonomic, and oh so punctual.

@thekeygod9810

2 жыл бұрын

Wow I thought I was the only person that felt this way , you should check out his work with Coltrane !

@mattiasnyman801

Жыл бұрын

@@thekeygod9810 where can I find Dawsons work with Coltrane?

@jamessomma8226

Жыл бұрын

At Northeastern in Boston, I took a couple of lessons from lan at Berklee. I thought Buddy Rich had fast hand, but Alan was exceptional. What a great person!!! @@thekeygod9810

Amazing bass solo! The young bass players should listen to every morning the great N.H.Ø.P

@thekeygod9810

2 жыл бұрын

Hey man who was playing the bass on this one ?

@jacobanteau6020

2 жыл бұрын

Craaazy that he was 19 or 20 when this was recorded

The world was so different then, Sonny had been a beacon of jazz genius and integrity for a decade, and along with Coltrane gave us all enough so that we should be still digesting and admiring his gifts even now (in 2020). THIS IS HIGH ART.

So wonderful to see Alan Dawson in action. There is not a lot of video of this great drummer. Of course, the whole video is a joy. I don’t understand these people who go around hitting the thumbs down on great performances like this.

@glennwisniewski9536

Жыл бұрын

I highly recommend Alan Dawson playing Take Five with Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan in Berlin in 1972. He substitutes for Joe Morello and does a magnificent solo - see kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y6iWtdurnbvVZpM.html.

@pder2001

Жыл бұрын

I also recommend the footage of Bill Evans, Lee Konitz, NHØP, and Alan Dawson in Copenhagen 1965 if you haven't seen it.

Niels was a truely great bassist. Great groove.

Happy 90th birthday to Sonny Rollins, Sept 7, 2020.

What a dream rhythm section: NHOP and Alan Dawson. Heaven.

man.. Alan Dawson's swing is truly second to none.. love it!

The great Alan Dawson on drums.

This a big dude make it look like a Alto saxophone

Alan Dawson was my drum teacher

@patrickwickett1787

8 жыл бұрын

That is incredible. He was one of the all time teachers. Rudimental Ritual. Geez. Played with Brushes!

@fdasaro1

6 жыл бұрын

I've been to his clinics , a Master

@tdrum21

5 жыл бұрын

Amazing like Tony. Luck you! Did you run through his rudimental warm ups regularly?

@adbarnes57

4 жыл бұрын

Remember my Dad (who was a drummer and public school band director for years) coming back from a summer camp with his older students. Telling me all about Alan Dawson. This would have been in the late 1960's or early 70's. My dream was to get to Boston area to study with him when I got older, alas was not meant to be....I studied his approach to the kit as much as I could. Even thou I never got to met him in person, he had a very big influence on my playing.

@brianhammer5107

4 жыл бұрын

that's awesome - the Richard Davis/Alan Dawson rhythm-machine is a great team!

N.H.Ø.P is the most wonderful cat, besides how crazy good he is on the bass his fat TONE is amazing. Beautiful.

I could listen to hours of Sonny playing 4s with Alan Dawson. Happy Birthday, Mr. Sonny Rollins!

whatever song sonny plays sounds like he wrote it incredible!

@thekeygod9810

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah his flow is so flawless it’s scary

That bass player held it down for the piano never noticed he was missing

@brianhammer5107

4 жыл бұрын

What piano? Rollins didn't work with them very often. Monk being one exception.

Alan Dawson is incredibly underrated. The phrasing in his trading is so fun to listen to, it never gets old.

Dawson! What a match with Sonny. Powerful.

Great living improviser? G.O.A.T. !!!! The baddest man on the planet .......and amazingly, one of the nicest ...

I got 7minutes into the track and half way through the comments before I realized there wasn't a piano player. Rollins et al. really kill on this

@fawltytenor

6 жыл бұрын

yeah, man. who needs a piano player anyhow.

@cjgreen4331

4 жыл бұрын

same

Awesome playing all around. Sonny was at the height of his creativity here, NHOP's solo is fantastic as is Alan Dawson's. I don't know why he never got his due because he was a true master.

@brianhammer5107

4 жыл бұрын

I would say Sonny was at his best in the late-Fifties, but still very good in '65. Dawson is on a ton of recording sessions, so he is pretty well known.

Fantastic drum solo!

Denmark is jazz heaven. They sound so good with Sonny.

The Danish bass player, NHØP (Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen), was 19 years old when this was recorded in the concert hall of the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen (Denmark). The drummer is Alan Dawson. As far as I know, the three men had not even had a rehearsal.

@TremendousSax

6 жыл бұрын

Nikolaj Lunøe Absolutely incredible! Immense talent on display here

@paulgibby3340

4 жыл бұрын

Sounded to me like nhop went into his walking out of his solo kind of early, maybe feeling the pressure to create. Nice how Sonny started adding some background tones to flesh it out out a bit. NHOP solid though young.

@sawomirmanikowski6742

4 жыл бұрын

He plays good, but, sorry, not that level of those legends. He shouldn't be alowed to play with masters just because of mutherfucking rules of fucking TV.

@niklunoe

4 жыл бұрын

Getting a chance to play with more experienced colleagues helps young talents mature, and Mr. Rollins’ decision to give the 19 year old a chance at his Copenhagen concert was not influenced by the TV broadcaster. Dexter Gordon spoke highly of NHØP in letters he wrote to friends at the time, and Ben Webster and Bud Powell also said they enjoyed working with the teenager. However, I do not have the time to look up those texts right now - so suffice to quote what Oscar Peterson wrote about a more mature NHØP in his 2002 autobiography, A Jazz Odyssey: “Niels Pedersen is the type of player whose talents on his instrument are such that he is almost unaware of what he does. His virtuosity on the bass surpasses anyone else that I have known. His melodic sense is impeccable, his choice of harmonic sequences is a pure delight to play with, and his time is flawless … He is now arguably the most inventive bassist in jazz.” When given a choice, pianists as different as George Shearing and Michel Petrucciani also asked for NHØP to accompany them. And, by the way, on top of his facility on bass NHØP, an autodidact, was a decent human being, tolerant & appreciative of others, firm but polite, highly intelligent, and quite erudite (particularly in the field of history).

@ucsbjazz2531

4 жыл бұрын

too bad he totally lost the form during the trading 4s

Sonny's trio playing is his best work in my opinion. W/O the burden of a chordal instrument he really flys!!!

Thank You, Rolling Sun, for guiding us poor souls groping in t he darkness, for giving us strength to go on to our deliverance. A bow to Your gurus too

I saw Rollins live. What was it like? Like ice cream on a sunny summer day.

I love these kind of trio's horn bass n' drums. Sonny and Allan are in state of pure Zen. So relaxed and powerful. The Bass is nasty. Sonny really stretches out without a piano. Man he blew me away on this performance. In the moment improvisation at it's best! He's still here and boping!😎

Really beautiful playing the three of them. Alan is so masterful here! clear and fluid... just amazing, delightful

One of the tenor giants.

they are vibin' here and that bass solo is worth it's weight in gold!

Folks! Dig that young cat on bass Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen (the dane) I heard/saw him in CPH in the mid 60's, allready then he was great

Of course Sonny and Niels are top-notch, but my oh my, Alan Dawson sure is awesome That drumsolo was next level.

one of the best drum solos I've ever heard

Alan Dawson, che meraviglia di batterista! tecnica fantasia musicalita! Best!

Listen to Dawson's bass drum especially during the solo! Amazingly powerful and dynamically smooth and Beautiful. The doubles between the r foot n' snare Tom's (sometimes HH)

probably the best jazz bass player of all time...

Young NHØP (Niels-Henning Ø P) in 1964 with Sonny Rollins in CPH, I was there! (The"old" 78yrs today 2021) It was cool man!

Rollin's restatement and invention upon the melody of the tune, so fucking brilliant... !

These guys make it all seem so easy. Surely, even non jazz fans could hardly fail to nbe impressed by such talent. Have bookmarked this and pplay it regularly. Aren't we lucky to have in whenever we need a little real music. Regards from England.

I must say, this is easily my favorite version of this tune.

wow. it takes a damn good bassist to nail it like that. chapeau.

I like the Sonny controlled his dynamics by moving around the microphone.

@jschneid6

Жыл бұрын

He did stuff like that on his records too, at least moving around with the bell, and it creates a sort of "phasing" effect. Always loved that. Joe Henderson got that too sometimes.

5:52 Sonny quotes "Them There Eyes" Simply incredible communication through the horn; during the trading with Alan he's literally taking the figures he's playing and translating it on the saxophone

En fantastisk koncert. Har aldrig glemt denne store oplevelse.

My Lord that is sweet,,,,love the drum solo

There used to be a great concert he did with Brubeck where he played a maraca in his right hand instead of a drumstick as a ride on the hi hat and across the set. That was brilliant. That should be up on KZread. Peace, Mike. He was a player-not just a teacher.

John Bresnik You don't see it often because it is very hard to make it sound good, and Sonny is definitely one of the best at it.

@GClephMusique

10 жыл бұрын

yeah I mean I can HEAR the changes in everything they play, that's what separates the men from the boys in jazz. I'm a pianist and saxophonist and the lack of a chordal instrument is what makes this amazing to me, they improv over every change, never play the head once and if you know the song you can hear it all. nothing but greatness.

and the spirit of the Lord came on Sonny Rollins

Oh my goodness They are cookin BIG TIME!

yes sir Mr. Rollins! He defies being bound by the beat!

This trio is pure dope, unadulterated.

One of saxophone ' s original voices.

Who the hell are the 7 people who clicked thumbs down on this video? They better not have had ears.

@greaterustreettheatregroup396

6 жыл бұрын

Marcus Cornelius Aurelius like a person who has never studied math opening a calculus book and saying “it’s nothing but gibberish. I don’t like it”

this is kickass. what a trio

There are no mistake s ... Silly sax love from Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert. Praises Africa

god d! that section cooks ! yowza!

Three maestros. Sublime. It doesn't get better than this--and just think, NHOP was still a teenager here!

Oooowwwwwwwww... What a triioooo....beyond beautiful, thanks God

Unmatched..anywhere, anytime..any universe!!

Holy Crap! The bass solo is amazing! And Alan Dawson is fantastic!

The greatest of all times . I'm holding my own 86 years young . A jazz fan all my life . Love 💘 it or leave it.

Alan Dawson is a monster - Great video.

Such a fun, spirited, spiritual, swinging and exciting period for Newk. So fortunate to have theses videos- ty for upload, snd whomever had the foresight to- record them!

waoou, what a great quality sound!! that bass, killer!!

First time I heard A longer solo from Alan Dawson. Wow. Really kept the overall theme going, while playing interesting variations, swinging hard, with super smooth chops and an obvious economy of motion around the set. No wonder the Bigs sought him out as a teacher.

man young nhop was truly a different animal... his swing feel at 19 playing those lines is just insane also that line at 9:02 to 9:09 mindblowing

Drop Dead Brilliant!!!

still AMAZING!

Thanks for sharing this great performance

Quite superb. 3 extremely talented musicians who gelled brilliantly. I have been a jazz lover all my life and really do appreciate this. Thank you so much. Have bookmarked this for regular future visits.

@danbailey7203

3 жыл бұрын

I'm still visiting regularly, a go to trio performance 🔥

This is really incredible. Thanks for upping it.

Another masterpiece!

Thanks for re-uploading it.

What a groove...fantastic...

Just smooth as hell!!!!

Mr. Rollins love the way you have always make great things happen, what a phenomenal trio 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Fantastic.

So great!!!!!

Incredible drummer!

Amazing

He's just so cool ...

WOW! What a phenomenal posting! Such smooth, melodic playing by all. And wonderful footage of Alan Dawson!

Qué pedazo de trio!!

This is just a masterpiece

What a Trio. All Great Musician.♫♪ ♫♪ I Love It. ♥ Thanks.

Magnificent!!

Great thenks

There could never be another way to play it any better.

One of the coolest things ever made

So,so fine!

Meravigliosi creativi geniali .

Very esence of jazz drumming in this single clip...

Best performance of Sonny Rollins I know

Un grande del saxo tenor!

And this is why I love Jazz