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Tag Archives: sonny rollins
Granite The Eighteenth
following on from my series of mixes dedicated to individuals here is one for thelonious monk and as usual i will write a bit about each track. when he got a contract with riverside records in 1955 they thought it … Continue reading
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Tagged art blakey, ben riley, billie holiday, charlie rouse, chet baker, dizzy gillespie, frankie dunlop, gary mapp, hampton hawes, john coltrane, john ore, larry gales, nica de koenigswarter, ray charles, sonny rollins, thelonious monk, zoot sims
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Jazz Quotations 5
It’s singing with soul that counts. Billie has so much soul. When I sing a tune, the lyrics are important to me. Most of the standard lyrics I know well. And as soon as I hear an arrangement, I get … Continue reading
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Tagged bill evans, billie holliday, Charlie Parker, darius milhaud, dave brubeck, herbie hancock, paul motian, sarah vaughan, scott la faro, sonny rollins
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When I Was 4
Here’s the next year of the Rock And Roll Years series. I better confess now that I don’t have all of these. In fact I’m missing some of the ones that I would most like to have in particular those … Continue reading
Jazz Quotations 2
some more snippets from the downbeat archive Like a woman at Birdland once asked me why I played so low, so much in the middle register, and not on the top keys. Well, I play where I want to. I … Continue reading
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Tagged dave brubeck, django reinhardt, downbeat magazine, horace silver, lennie tristano, sonny rollins
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