What were /mu/'s favorite Sonny Rollins songs? Will he get a sticky, or is 1950's jazz too out of fashion these days?https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/arts/music/sonny-rollins-dead.html
>>130427529>it’s realMandatory sticky
>>130427529>born 1930he had quite a run
>>130427529Damn. Big F
holy fucking shit it's real. major fucking F.
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he was the last one standing from 'great day in harlem' photoend of an era
Rest in peace
Call me basic all you like, but "Slave", which he did with the Rolling Stones.https://youtu.be/K64MvxlKZy8?si=fZMSM8qVRNUt3TMgSince they're my favorite rock band, I don't feel any guilt for picking this.I love Bobby Keys, but this is way better than anything he ever played with the group.
big F https://youtu.be/rWLaYwWRHSU?si=7_SEf0Ro90oZC5Cj
>>130427529I used to really be into 50s jazz, but I haven’t listened in a while. St Thomas has some great improvisation.https://youtu.be/fdakJqKPRDE
RIPOne of my fav albums of hishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAD4ykWFq48
Colossal F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6BAN0zM0X4
>>130427529Fuck you, i knew it was a fake, i won't believe it this time either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_-brY2w59I
>>130427529What the fuck man, trooner mods better sticky this it's huge.Also for me it's either Tenor Madness or Pent Up House, which I am currently learning on guitar.
(JAZZ MUSIC STOPS)
How many musicians from the 1950's are still around?
>>130427529F
That's tragic. One of the most monumentally influential players in the world with such a wide catalogue. He truly was a saxophone colossus. I don't know if I can pick just one track of his but I think Live at the Village Vanguard is one of the most landmark recordings of jazz ever. He plays his fucking ass off that entire session. Playing without a piano or any kind of comp instrument while playing like that is just bonkers.
If Sonny Rollins doesn’t get a sticky I’m gonna be fucking pissed
>>130428146do you know where you are, friend?
He was one of the last legends of his era. RIP
>>130428164Herbie Hancock is still going and he's still playing. I'm gonna try and go see him once again when he comes through. But yeah man, they're basically all gone. Ron Carter is still going. But light is slowly growing dimmer.
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>>130428146The no-sticky list is genuinely baffling and outrageous
>>130428205Sly Stone!!!
The Bridge is one of my fave records ever and this one from 2006 is pretty great. I put The Bridge over Coltrane or Davis records
>>130428164>his eraof the best era of jazz
>>130428271There's a lot to be said about Coltrane and his influence on jazz, but I don't think anybody has pushed jazz in quite the direction that Sonny Rollins did. Coltrane pushed the boundaries of jazz, but Sonny Rollins brought jazz itself to its final form without pushing the boundary (though he definitely pushed boundaries). That's why I honestly think there is no other players quite like him, and I don't think there ever will be another player like Sonny. Truly a genius that happened to intersect the perfect point in history.
>>130428285Have you been posting in the jazz threads for a long time? I remember the anon who argues for Sonny over Coltrane. I'm more of a Tranehead myself but I definitely think Sonny achieved much the same depth of feeling in his technique just in a different context.
>>130428416kek yeah that's me. Call it being pretentious or just bored shitposting, but I've always thought Sonny really achieved something truly unique. I think about it a lot too since both clearly had such a unique respect for each other. But I've just always thought Sonny had such an impressively consistent career. Arguably because he just lived way longer, but he's just got such a unique playstyle and what's crazy to me is how he was always evolving on every record. Like -- I can tell it's Sonny Rollins, but how he's playing on The Brdige is just so different from Saxophone Colossus or when he plays with miles or on Sonny Side Up or his later records, or with Alfie. I just can't get over his career sometimes. Even some of his later stuff, while not exactly for me, is still damn impressive in its own right. Must have hurt to have to give up the horn when he did, I remember reading an interview about how sad it made him to know that he just can't play anymore.
>>130428478:(
COLOSSAL F>It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95.
and with that every musician in this photograph is dead
>>130428582This pic represents an entire musical ecosystem that doesn't exist anymore. If you want to play jazz nowadays you have to get a grant and go to a respectable music college and learn the "right" methods and make the "right" connections. You can't just teach yourself to play or apprentice with an established master and then get plucked off the street to hone your chops in a real working band anymore. Well I guess you can, but it's a helluva lot harder.
Daily reminder Ron Carter, Keith Jarrett, Airto Moreira and Jean-Luc Ponty will all die before the end of this year.
>>130428582me in the front
Sonny died one day before the 100th birthday of Miles Davis (today, the 26th). Sonny played with Miles multiple times and featured on a few of his albums, most famously on side two of the classic album Bags' Groove.
You lived to see Sonny Rollins not get a sticky
Actually very sad for this. He got to live an exceptionally long life and all but he really was the last trace of a magical moment in history. We have the records and all but I liked to believe that part of it was still alive.
When even was the last time we had a sticky? Are mods just not doing them anymore?
he's the last major artist of the 50s. there's not many of the 60s left either. the final remaining jazz giant is Herbie Hancock.
Nobody physically lives forever but Sonny Rollins has achieved immortality musically which is a hell of a consolation.
>>130429061/mu/ doesn’t have any mods
>>130427529colossal Fmine is St.Thomas, it's a fun song to playalso saw him play with his band once, great vibes>no stickycringe af>>130428145>tragiche was 95 years old, anon>>130428582grim
>>130429671>>130428582Ronnie Free is still alive although he was late for the photoshoot
Jazz is officially dead.
>>130429125Laufey > Herbie Hancock( •̀⤙•́ )
>>130427529Fi feel really lucky i got to see him live
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>>130427529mmm.I guess..I guess I kinda like them all
>>130429061The /mu/ “moderator” only comes by occasionally and they aren’t a /mu/tant so we only get stickies for nu-metal members like that Limp Bizkit guy. RIP to Damo and Jaki no sticky for prominent members in one of the most talked about bands on this site for a long time.
>>130430824that is a kino album cover ngl
>>130428285pushing the boundaries isn't per se superior to a non avant garde but still adventurous approach (names like velvet underground or the fall come to my mind)>>130428416i posted a couple of times about rollins over coltrane yeah. i tend to find the so called post bop more interesting and adventurous than the so called avant garde fusion
>>130429671It's still tragic friend. He had a good long life though. Glad he got to experience so much.
>>130427529Really loved saxophone colossus but I've been underwhelmed by a lot of his other discography. Seems like a lot of his 80s solos are just him playing the same one note again and again. Obviously a great loss, but anyone got any recs that prove me wrong?
>>130427529sticky
>>130431948>Work Time>Tenor Madness>Plays for Bird>Way Out West>Vol. 2>Village Vanguard>The Bridge>On Impulse>East Broadway Rundown>Alfie>Next Album>In JapanAll great sessions
>>130431948Plus 4 with Clifford Brown and Max Roach.
>>130430824that's my fav https://youtu.be/C6Oma0WOALUhttps://youtu.be/l7XRMGPlYfQhttps://youtu.be/oSpaqjCl358Saw him live in the late 90s with Bob Cranshaw on bass RIP
>>130429061>>130429589I made a thread asking "What music do goyim listen to" and it got deleted for racism
>>130432185That was a janny doing a good job for once
>>130431948stay filtered
>>130432235At least that Alyssa Liu thread got deleted when I reported it
>>130428279tru
>>130428271The Bridge is definitely on par with the best Trane albums and I say this as a massive Tranefag
>>130430229so true zoomer sister
>>130428644I bet Toshiko Akiyoshi will be next to go, she's 96
Mods are probably a bunch of fusionfag tourists who don't even know who this is. Shameful and sad.
>>130430847The idea that we have one mod and he’s just like a circuit judge that comes in occasionally, hands out some light justice and then fucks off is extremely funny to me.
>>130432103great choices and jealous of you seeing him live, he was probably godlike
You're in a better place now, King. RIP. F.
>He thinks he's a jazz fan but he's never listened to The Bridge
oooOOOOoooOOoOo WHERES MY STICKYYYYY OOoooOoOoooOoOo
>>130431703>i tend to find the so called post bop more interesting and adventurous than the so called avant garde fusionactual jazzer confirmed
Jonathan Glazer, one of my favorite living movie directors, appears to be a big Rollins fan. I wonder what song of his he's listening to today.
: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElQkBPSbt2Y
Fcolossus>>130428146get ready
>>130428184>Herbie Hancock is still going and he's still playing. I'm gonna try and go see him once again when he comes through. But yeah man, they're basically all gone. Ron Carter is still going. But light is slowly growing dimmer.thanks, Reddit
>>130432801kek
>>130432388If you want an idea what his shows in the 90s were like the feel was in between these two and he ended with St Thomas. I've seen much crazier performances but it was excellent and mellow and bucket list for a big name in jazz.https://youtu.be/V8daSzQDXvohttps://youtu.be/0i7i-R82-VM
The Cutting Edge [Milestone, 1974]Rollins is one of those certified geniuses who didn't pan out for me when I had the time to investigate jazz, and although I hoped for belated paydirt from his first live album in years, more careful examination reveals that the straight melodies do get dull and the improvisations aren't rich enough to invite deep digging, just like all the jazz metallugists warned me. B
>>130432827he first reviewed him that late? what a fucking poser lmao
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>>130428644marshall allen turned 102 yesterday
>>130432849As he said, this was Rollins's first live album since 1965. Keep in mind that Rollins's recorded output significantly slowed in the late 60s-early 70s.
>>130430229you're obviously a khhv child but to be fair to your post, she'd probably get a sticky if she were to drop dead today or tomorrow
>>130432958he's always making excuses kek
>>130432801Herbie's also a full decade younger than Rollins, he's a completely different generation, really.
>>130432958Cuckgau didn't review jazz that often. Rollins also didn't put out any new material for five years before resuming regular album releases in the mid-70s--like a lot of his contemporaries, he didn't really know what to do with the counterculture era.
>>130432827>didn't pan out for me when I had the time to investigate jazzAlready a red flag.
>>130432874Literally nobody cares about this guy other than fusionfags and secondaries and they only found out he exists a year ago after bandcamp pushed him hard
>>130433164I don't like fusion tourists either but he's had a fanbase since 1993
The few times he ventured into fusion he did it with exceptionally good taste, nothing like the usual 70's fusion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWLaYwWRHSUhttps://youtu.be/U7EJy8t9TxA?si=MJc1VY3vSuGcM3RLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k2gO5VJzo4https://youtu.be/giv8EuU-VGw?si=LXZRh30LfLmgyCs0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDbW0TAT-c0
huge F
>>130433164You started your sentence with the word literally so you must be correct
>>130432375Well that’s exactly what it is, probably a dedicated mod for another board and when /mu/ was being discussed they just said “fuck it it’s a slow board I’ll take it” but they have dogshit taste in music and don’t know anything about the board culture.
RIPF
RIPThe House I Live In, monumental track. Thank You for so much music.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HdP1DCakT9o
vax status?
>not Sax status
>Altering my DNA by injecting myself with the tenor vaxophone
>>130428582Sonny and Monk looking like motherfuckin OGs
He was the last living member of the Max Roach/Clifford Brown group. Undoubtedly one of the greatest soloists ever: https://youtu.be/Gb_uG7dSGcs?si=RstI3utFGaASfrYD
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nWarnnEiIoXZ8UAK1H5w0OImAIDkMXdo4&si=lVn_uKpfPlO_Tw_Nhttps://music.youtube.com/watch?v=OCcys7FIhis
bumpy Fs
>>130427529big F.Now that even Sonny is dead, who are the greats from the golden era of jazz still alive?Anthony Braxton? Herbie Hancock? who else?
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nWarnnEiIoXZ8UAK1H5w0OImAIDkMXdo4
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kino
don't have an original or contrarian take. sorry, sonny sisters.favorite album: saxophone colossusfavorite song (off of the album and in general): st. thomasbonus fav: ezz-thetic off of max roach + 4
>>130440971Does Ron Carter count? For a while I thought Barry Harris was still alive, forgot he died in 2021George Coleman is still alive and playing.. or at least played recently with that online piano kike emmet cohen
>>130440971>>130442130Sonny Rollins was the last of his generation. There's Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, George Coleman, George Benson and a few others, but these guys started performing and recording late 50's/early 60's.
