Sonny rollins is one of the great legends on the tenor saxophone. In our catalog, you can find sonny rollins sheet music for piano, drums, flute, saxophone, trumpet, guitar and almost any other instrument. Saxophone colossus est lun des albums du saxophoniste tenor sonny rollins les plus. When it comes to picking material, todays young hard boppers both instrumentalists and singers could learn a lot from sonny rollins a tenor titan who has always had a way of surprising us with interesting, unexpected choices. Thomas, tears into the chord changes of mack the knife here called moritat, introduces strode rode, is lyrical on you. In a sevendecade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a leader.
His solo work has earned him many accolades, including grammy awards, election into the american academy of arts and sciences, an edward macdowell medal, and the medal of arts from president barack obama. The rhythm section is borrowing the strategy of ornette colemans mid60s trio its all shifting textures behind the soloist while hometown guitarist masuo, although he can feed sonny chords, also. Warner chappell, bmg rights management, and 6 music rights. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. Sonny rollins born september 7, 1930, new york city, new york, usa is an american jazz tenor saxophonist, widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. Sonny rollins tenor saxophone, tommy flanagan piano, doug watkins bass max roach drums recorded 22 june 1956 disclaimer. Sonnys just plain fierce, and the performance of moritat mack the knife in front of this audience has a mordancy verging on the sarcastic. Sonny rollins download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Rollins acquired the nickname newk because of his facial resemblance to brooklyn dodgers star pitcher don newcombe. The song moritat is form the cd saxophone colossus. Strode rode sonny rollins sax solo transcription in bb. Jim hall on guitar, bob cranshaw on double bass and ben riley on drums. Sonny rollins sheet music free download in pdf or midi on.
Warner chappell, bmg rights management, and 6 music rights societies. Sonny rollins moritat sheet music download free in pdf or midi. The bridge is a studio album by jazz saxophonist sonny rollins, recorded in 1962. Heres free links to the transcriptions ive done in the past. Click download or read online button to get sonny rollins book now. Moritat sheet music composed by sonny rollins 1 of 4 pages. This lesson is based off of a great solo by sonny rollins on the tune moritat. He has worked with greats such as miles davis, art taylor, j. Download for free in pdf midi format, or print directly from our site.
Thomas sonny rollins solo transcription learn jazz. Ive never seriously checked out sonny rollins in particular, i havent given saxophone colossus 1956 or a. Sonny rollins moritat sheet music download free in pdf. Sonny rollins doxy key change to alto sax saxsolos. Thomas, what was important in those days was the publishing. This classic solo would be very difficult, if not impossible, to play on alto, trombone, or bass.
Ive never seriously checked out sonny rollins in particular, i havent given saxophone colossus 1956 or a night at the village vanguard 1957 their due in my listening rotation. Sonny rollins is an american jazz tenor saxophonist, widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians on the planet. For accordion exercise has been transported in c and tempo reduced to 46bpm. June 22, 1956 van gelder studios, hackensack, new jersey prestige records listenbuy cd tracks st. Sonny rollins quartet moritat mack the knife7247dnc. Original jazz classics ojc091, ojccd0912 j j johnson, kai winding, benny green trombone by three prestige pres 164 jay jay johnson, kai winding, bennie green trombone by three prestige prlp 7253 j. Sonny rollins four classic albums 2011 written by bluesever monday, 23 january 2012 23. Sonny rollins at the san francisco opera house, february 22, 1982. Sonny rollins solo on it dont mean a thing transcriptions page updates for april 2016. Sonny rollins, byname newk, original name theodore walter rollins, born september 7, 1930, new york, new york, u. Moritat mack the knife sonny rollins solo from the album saxophone colossus. Sonny rollins on moritat a horizontal search, by kevin sun. Prestige wanted to have the credit because publishing was a large percentage of the income from the records, so they credited it.
Sonny rollins quartet moritat mack the knife youtube. Thomas rollins you dont know what love is strode rode rollins moritat blue 7 rollins personnel sonny rollins ts tommy flanagan p doug watkins b max roach d read more. Johnson looking back prestige p24067 various artists early bones prestige prlp 109 kai winding, j. The sonny rollins omnibook celebrates the bebop legend that worked with miles, monk, mjq, and many others.
A portrait of sonny rollins is a mustbuy for anyone with interests in either jazz or photography and certainly if you are like me interested in both. Joined by pianist tommy flanagan, bassist doug watkins, and drummer max roach, rollins debuts and performs the definitive version of st. Bob blumenthal provides the text and, along with john abbotts remarkably captivating images, presents an entertaining, educational, and inspirational statement about one. Over the years, he hasnt made the mistake of limiting himself to overdone gershwin and cole porter favorites. The saxophonist was joined by the musicians with whom he recorded for the next segment of his career. Saxophonist sonny rollins on his colossal archive the jazz giant reflects on his decision to release a sprawl of writings, recordings and other material to the schomburg center for research in. Sonny rollins doxy key change to alto sax quantity. See new and popular sonny rollins songs, uploaded by musescore users, connect with a community of musicians who love to write and play music.
Moritat sonny rollins solo free download as pdf file. In 1957 he made his carnegie hall debut and recorded again for blue note with johnson on trombone, horace silver or monk on piano and drummer art blakey. Saxophone colossus is the sixth studio album by american jazz saxophonist sonny rollins. On this album, i did want to record the songs that i was playing at the timemoritat. Sonny rollins mack the knife pdf sonny rollins moritat a. It was rollins first release following a threeyear sabbatical and was his first album for rca victor.
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