Hardbopjazz

R.I.P. Too young.

Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday

I'm sure Sonny is aware of his time he has left. He's been putting things in order, such as donating to scholarship program and supplying the National Jazz Museum of Harlem with a ton of his personal artifacts.

Sonny is the shit. In my opinion the greatest tenor player ever that has picked up the horn. He has so much music in him. The last times I saw him live I pulled out my iPhone and shot these two clips.

He's given so much musically to the world. He should enjoy his remaining years.

A good read. Sonny Rollins, now 87, accepts everything that has happened in his life with love and gratitude. Stories of The Saxophone Colossus are legendary—from tales of him painting on a fake mustache to sneak into jazz clubs and catch Charlie Parker play to the oft-mythologized image of him practicing in solitude on The Williamsburg Bridge—and we’ll likely be discovering more for years to come. Though Pulmonary fibrosis has left his lungs too scarred to play his horn, his life’s work will not be lost to any generational gap. Last year he donated his entire archives containing his writings on everything from improvisation to race relations, old newspaper clippings and personal ephemera to the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. These artifacts from Rollins’ life will be right at home in the Harlem institution, just blocks from where he grew up, next to James Baldwin’s recently acquired archives and years of Black American history, from slave narratives to artwork from the Harlem Renaissance. More below. http://www.realclearlife.com/music/jazz-icon-sonny-rollins-difference-knowing-believing/

It is neither of those.

It’s easier to hit the high e on those prehistoric models.

HAppy Birthday.

Very funny.

Kenny Cox

They may be new tunes.

I am ordering my copy today. Randy lists it on his website. http://randyweston.info/randy-weston-discography-pages/2018sound.html I tried to order it on cdbaby as it shows on his website, but it isn't available yet. CD 1 1 The Call (Weston) 2 Softness (Weston) 3 Kucheza Blues (Weston) 4 Childrens Icicle Song (Weston) 5 African Lady (Weston) 6 Pretty Strange (Weston) 7 Willies Tune (Weston) 8 Nite in Medina (Weston) 9 Sister Gladys (Weston) 10 Yesterdays (Jerome Kern) 11 Beef Blues Stew (Weston) 12 Blues Blues (Weston) 13 Tanjah (Weston) 14 Solemn Meditation (Sam Gill) 15 Love the Mystery of Love (Guy Warren) CD 2 1 Ancient Blues (Weston) 2 Old Blues (Weston) 3 Portrait of Vivian (Weston) 4 Portrait of Billie Holliday (Weston) 5 Calypso (Weston) 6 Little Susan (Weston) 7 Marrakech Blues/Royal Lady (Weston) 8 Loose Wig (Weston) 9 In Memory Of (Weston) 10 How High is the Moon/Get Happy (H.Lewis/A.Koehler) 11 Sound Colors & Rhythms (Weston) 12 Chessman Delight (Weston) 13 Portrait of the Hawk (Weston) 14 Tea for Two (Vincent Youmans) 15 Tangier Bay (Weston) 16 Royal Duke (Weston) 17 All the Things You Are (Jeremy Carn) 18 Darn That Dream (Jimmy Van Heusen) 19 Perdido (Duke Ellington) 20 Nobody Knows The Trouble I Have Seen (Spiritual) 21 The Black Church (Weston) 22 Conversation (Weston) 23 Chromatic Love Affair (Duke Ellington) 24 Fire Down There (Traditional)

It's an unissued Rollins' original. It isn't on any of his officially release albums.

You got them all right.