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52nd Street Theme (Remastered 1998/Rudy Van Gelder Edition)

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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 15d

Happy Birthday Fats Navarro! Here's the trumpeter with Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, Tommy Potter, and Roy Haynes, on Thelonious Monk's 52nd St. Theme, recorded for Blue Note Records in 1949: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OCD...

YouTube video by Bud Powell - Topic

Jazz and Life - Sonny Rollins

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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26d

95.5/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 Thank you for joining us for this Sonny Rollins celebration! As a closing bonus, enjoy this interview, "Jazz and Life": "Jazz is a force of nature, it's a feeling, it's a sense of communing with higher things... that's what it is for me." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFCE...

YouTube video by Jazz Video Guy

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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26d

95/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 Sonny's composition "Pantjali," recorded July 25, 2012 at Palais Longchamp, Marseille, France: youtu.be/MWwtH043bnw?...

Patanjali

Sonny Rollins - Jazz à Vienne 2011 - LIVE HD

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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26d

94/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 "Tenor Madness" Sonny Rollins live at Jazz à Vienne, 2011: youtu.be/lxzuvS29lR8?...

YouTube video by Zycopolis TV

Jazz Legend "Sonny" Rollins Honored By President Obama

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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26d

93/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 In 2011, Sonny was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Pres. Barack Obama. "I'm very happy that jazz, the greatest American music, is being recognized... and I'm grateful to accept this award on behalf of the gods of our music." –S.R. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT3G...

YouTube video by TDC

Sonny Rollins & Ornette Coleman - Sonnymoon For Two (Live 2010)

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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26d

92/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 "Sonnymoon for Two" In September 2010, Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins share the stage for the very first time at Sonny's 80th birthday celebration at the Beacon Theatre in NYC: youtu.be/WhXlwdkcLc4?...

YouTube video by dixiefeet

✨Sonny Rollins- Some Enchanted Evening🎷

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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26d

91/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 In September 2007, Sonny was joined by Roy Haynes and Christian McBride at Carnegie Hall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his debut there. Here's "Some Enchanted Evening": youtu.be/oeRqpjoGfJs?...

YouTube video by Jazz Odyssey

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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26d

90/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 Sonny's blues "H.S." (dedicated to Horace Silver), recorded live in Toulouse, France, 2006 and released on Road Shows, Vol. 4: Holding the Stage: youtu.be/Tq0sy-k3kDg?...

H.S. (Live)

Sonny Rollins - Sonny, Please (2006) [FULL ALBUM]

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26d

89/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 Sonny's original "Park Place Parade," named for the ballroom where he went to calypso dances with his mother, from the 2006 Doxy album Sonny Please: youtu.be/C9Frnlfcst8?...

YouTube video by トータルAgainst

Sonny Rollins - Without A Song (Live In Boston / 2001) (Official Audio)

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26d

88/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 The title track from Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert, recorded in Boston Sept. 15, 2001. "Maybe music can help. I don't know. But we have to try something these days, right?" –S.R. youtu.be/OCAZA9WKiQM?...

Sonny Rollins - The Moon Of Manakoora (Official Audio)

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26d

87/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 Sonny starts off the 21st century with Loesser & Newman's "The Moon of Manakoora," from the 2000 Grammy-winning Milestone CD "This is What I Do": youtu.be/f5rikM3GFDk?...

Sonny Rollins - Echo Side Blue (Official Audio)

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26d

86/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 "Echo-Side Blue," from the 1998 album Global Warming. "We're destroying the planet... we are sawing the limb we're sitting on." –S.R. youtu.be/DwyQzRAJ0Ac?...

Sonny Rollins live in Japan Falling in love with love

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26d

85/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 Rodgers & Hart's "Falling in Love with Love," from a 1997 live performance in Tokyo: youtu.be/Ewg90DKNt0M?...

YouTube video by hothouse1468

Sonny Rollins - Biji (Official Audio)

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26d

84/95 Welcome to the final day of #sonnyrollins95for95! Here's Sonny's "Biji," with Tommy Flanagan, Bob Cranshaw, and Al Foster, from the 1995 Milestone album Sonny Rollins +3: youtu.be/0EJnVrjFdFQ?...

Sonny Rollins - Times Slimes (Official Audio)

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 27d

83/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 Sonny's "Times Slimes," from the 1993 Milestone album Old Flames. For the story behind the title, see Saxophone Colossus, p. 674: youtu.be/M1rjaaYVOs8?...

Sonny Rollins - Young Roy (Official Audio)

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 27d

82/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 Sonny plays his composition "Young Roy," written for and featuring then 21-year-old trumpeter Roy Hargrove, with pianist Mark Soskin, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Al Foster. Recorded for the 1991 Milestone album "Here's to the People": youtu.be/_kxa4-Hsfwk?...

Sonny Rollins - Why Was I Born? (Official Audio)

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 27d

81/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 Kern & Hammerstein's "Why Was I Born?" from the 1991 Milestone album Here's to the People: youtu.be/0UMnEw4ubLM?...

Sonny Rollins - For All We Know (Official Audio)

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 27d

80/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 "For All We Know" (Coots/Lewis), featuring guest tenorist Branford Marsalis, from the 1989 Milestone album Falling in Love with Jazz: youtu.be/9eP1x8saIaU?...

Sonny Rollins - Allison (Official Audio)

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 27d

79/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 From the 1987 album Dancing in the Dark, here's Sonny's composition "Allison": youtu.be/7epvk03Z9Oo?...

Sonny Rollins - G Man (Live In Saugerties, NY/1986) (Official Audio)

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 27d

78/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 "G-Man" During an Aug. 1986 Saugerties, NY, concert filmed for the film Saxophone Colossus, Sonny misjudged the height of the stage and jumped off, breaking his heel. "I kept playing, and I was very happy about that." –S.R. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6O...

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 27d

77/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 "Soloscope (Part 1)," from The Solo Album, recorded in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, July 1985: youtu.be/xHSyG1bthE0?...

Soloscope (Part 1)

Sonny Rollins - Tell Me You Love Me (Official Audio)

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 27d

76/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 Another from Sunny Days, Starry Nights: Sonny's "Tell Me You Love Me," with Clifton Anderson, Mark Soskin, Russell Blake, and Tommy Campbell: youtu.be/oeS_79XoiH0?...

Sonny Rollins - I'm Old Fashioned (Official Audio)

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 27d

75/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 Jerome Kern & Johnny Mercer's "I'm Old Fashioned," from the 1984 Milestone album Sunny Days, Starry Nights: youtu.be/F4Un0xSw5Sw?...

Sonny Rollins - McGhee (Official Audio)

Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 27d

74/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 "McGhee" (a minor blues based on a line Sonny Rollins remembered trumpeter Howard McGhee playing when they toured together in 1949), from the 1982 album Reel Life: youtu.be/pSL7S0fwwFw?...