Saturday, April 23, 2005

Mr. Rollins rules

Sonny Rollins may be showing his age a bit, he'll be 75 in September, but the guy still has it big time. At his concert in Chicago Friday night the old man improvised for the better part of a half hour on his song "St. Thomas," or perhaps "Don't Stop the Carnival," or, heck, maybe even "Salvador." The point is, I've heard him play four times in person now and never heard anything like this, on a recording either, although the stuff on "G-Man" is an approximation. Simply amazing.

1 comment:

357martini said...

jazz is where it's at