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I saw Sonny Rollins tonight!!!! Sonny played to a sold out house at Gusman Hall in downtown Miami. He played with his longtime bassist Bob Cranshaw, nephew/trombonist Clifton Anderson, drummer Victor Lewis and guitarist Bobby Broom.

A fantastic show, 75 year old Sonny played nonstop for an hour and a half and then a 20 minute encore (Billie's Bounce)!

An amazing night!

:)

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he played global warming from the 9/11 concert album and a standard whose name i forget (the one i confuse with someone to watch over me because of the opening bars) and one called (i think) Naisha. he played a few bars of st. thomas as a tease. the other numbers were ones that i did not recognize but thoroughly enjoyed. :)

the tempo on billie's bounce was swinging and in parts was REAL fast!

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...a standard whose name i forget (the one i confuse with someone to watch over me because of the opening bars)...

"My One & Only Love"?

"Polkadots and Moonbeams"?

That would have been my second choice, but Sonny's played "My One & Only Love" quite a bit over the years, iirc.

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I've seen Sonny 3 times. The last time he was also at Gusman, an old time facility, where Miami Ballet has often appeared.

Anyhow, this was easily the best I've seen of him. I was thinking I've never seen an instrument played so great.

Tremendous improvisations, then he comes to a melody fragment and then improvises on that.

The difference maker was Victor Lewis. He was making the other soloists more interesting by constantly changing pulse, while keeping the beat. He is a tremendous maistro and should be spoken of in the same breath as any of the supreme jazz drummers.

He received the key to the city before the concert.

He told the audience the name of one of the standards played. I forget the name, but it seemed to me a more obscure tune.

I thought the encore was Tenor Madness. I've been wrong before. The tune before the encore was a bop influenced blues authored by one of the band members, but it was a burner.

But back to Sonny- People leaving the concert couldn't believe it and rightly so. Just tremendous!!!

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...a standard whose name i forget (the one i confuse with someone to watch over me because of the opening bars)...

"My One & Only Love"?

"Polkadots and Moonbeams"?

That would have been my second choice, but Sonny's played "My One & Only Love" quite a bit over the years, iirc.

In a Sentimental Mood? Another pentatonic-y one he likes to play.

Edit: Oops. Should have read to the bottom!

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I was thinking whether a financially successful performer such as Sonny Rollins would want to record his shows ala the Grateful Dead and sell CDs or downloading on the web. I would think that such an operation would be financially successful and would document Sonny's improvisations and genius. I would think just about the entite audience at the Miami show would shell out $20 or so for such a recording.

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