Like Sonny - The Unique Relationship Between Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane

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Jimmy Heath, Paul Jeffrey and Sonny Rollins discuss the unique relationship between two tenor saxophone titans. From 2007, a Bret Primack film.
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[@RolandRoth-uo3sn]

Jimmy Heath made the point: There is no such thing like who is the best tenor player, look at a nice garden, there are so many beautiful flowers.... And I enjoy all of them!

[@maxhoecker]

“When you look in a flower garden, there’s a lot of beautiful flowers…” Jimmy Heath sums it up best.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

So true!

[@MrGuto]

The melody to Like Sonny that begins this video was inspired by a phrase Sonny plays on My Old Flame at around the 3:20 mark in that tune from the Kenny Dorham album. Check it out.

[@aljoschahunger]

..how is that tune called? sounds fun & interesting.. tia..

[@rbsprods3200]

Sonny has used the twisting melody motif, that Coltrane used in “Like Sonny”, many times!

[@MrGuto]

@@rbsprods3200 he may have, but the Like Sonny tune was released in 1960, and it was inspired on that solo from the Kenny Durham album from 1957.

[@MrGuto]

@@aljoschahunger tune is My Old Flame from the Kenny Dorham with Sonny Rollins album.

[@ralphh7853]

Sonny and Coltrane are my favorite saxophonist. I never get tired of listening to their music! Along with Wayne Shorter they are on my Mt Rushmore of saxophone players!❤🎷

[@bretthermance52]

Funny as I was reading your comment, I thought also Wayne, then I saw your mention of him. All greats!!

[@strangersname]

Isn't it funny (curious) that Trane has permeated his being into this music in so many ways, unavoidably and inevitably? It's not just his tunes or his approach or his technique. There's something else. Sonny managed to survive and thrive, probably because he paced himself better and let it unfold over time. We're blessed to have had them.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

their music is eternal

[@strangersname]

@@JazzVideoGuy That captures it !

[@gsco82]

Thanks so much for this Bret. I am an admirer of both Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, and I found this video educational and entertaining. Well done!

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ksenos69]

Wonderful narration!

[@russellkitch4043]

Another great clip..... thanks.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

glad you dig!

[@LiquidSnek]

Brotherhood of eternal love

[@JazzVideoGuy]

amen

[@thomasespositio3139]

nice to hear little Bird Jimmy Heath,what a talented family

[@kostaVHjovanovic]

thank you for this video

[@JazzVideoGuy]

My pleasure

[@Dang...]

Excellent thank you!!!

[@JazzVideoGuy]

You're welcome!

[@CaiusV.]

Thank you ❤

[@JazzVideoGuy]

You're welcome 😊

[@patriciacaton83]

2 Wonderful Artists on the Right Paths in Spirituality and Artistic Creativity

[@JazzVideoGuy]

well stated

[@patriciacaton83]

Merci

[@giampierogirolamo7134]

Loved it

[@JazzVideoGuy]

thank you

[@SemajMusiq]

Legends ‼️

[@JazzVideoGuy]

The greatest.

[@earlismarks7108]

Wow Tenor Madness...indeed indeed..Jazz Guy you too in what you did and do just makes you a Hall of Famer in my humble opinion.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Thanks, appreciate the kind words. Please check out my new site: syncopatedjustice.com

[@sitarnut]

Spot on!!! Bret, you are one Bad Mamma Jamma..You've brought heaps of Joy, Groove and Sanity in music to so many of we aging Beatnik Jazz musicians who grew up in the 50's - 60's. We rode the Bus Downtown and spent our entire allowance on sides. Had some great music shops in Fort Worth. We heard and copied all our Heroes, Bird, Paul Desmond, Sir Roland Kirk, Miles, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Clark, Bill Evans, Jim Hall and especially WES Montgomery. You bring back all those sweet memories... many blessings.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Appreciate the kind words! @@sitarnut

[@hayfordfrempong6369]

John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins are my two favorite people that I love

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Me, too

[@robwest36]

Metoo#

[@777noirkat]

Love Supreme Dude

[@JazzVideoGuy]

amen

[@adammarkowitz7944]

Got it, 2007. I ran into Sonny in the town in Southern Columbia County where he lived and I had a business. Sweetheart of a guy.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

That must have been when he lived in Germantown.

[@adammarkowitz7944]

Yes, indeed. My piano store was across the street from a deli which Sonny (and everyone else in town) frequented. I had "Saxophone Colossus" in picture window of the store. He was still playing concerts at the time, in his seventies. @@JazzVideoGuy

[@user-ms3bg1yh2d]

Coltrane and Rollins were roommates

[@JazzVideoGuy]

musically and spiritually

[@gerardfagan6229]

I heard Sonny only one time,at the Barbican Centre. I would have loved to heard him in a more intimate setting setting. Be grateful for small mercy's, a lot of fans nerver had the chance.

[@siriusra2692]

.............. I'm sure Coltrane admired the same thing i admired about Sonny........ Sonny's soulful sound seemed to flow so effortlessly out of his horn when it seem he's not even trying to play soulful........ I'm sure Coltrane was in awe of Sonny's gift.......

[@bluetoad2001]

i think it’s Trane’s head, his skull the resonance of the skull bones. i’ve been listening to Trane since i was a baby. My dad played early Coltrane records since i was in the womb. i’m 70 years old

[@JazzVideoGuy]

A lifetime of Trane. Pretty good!

[@brucescott4261]

@bluetoad2001 ...'Trane's body was damaged from the heroin and alcohol he was addicted to.

[@adammarkowitz7944]

When was this filmed, please?

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Inteviews from 2007, Coltrane from 1959, Sonny playing in 2006.

[@kwootamuckbear9294]

And then, there was Eric Dolphy☮️🎵🎶🎷

[@kennethtaylor964]

More out of curiosity than anything else, any idea how Dexter Gordon fits into this group of tenor players ?

[@JazzVideoGuy]

He had a profound influence on both.

[@ahknahten]

Dexter is the prequel to these guys!

[@agchambers1]

Also, there was a period of time back in the early 50s when Sonny was on gigs with Dexter. In Sonny's autobiography, he acknowledges that he deliberately learned what he could from Dexter. So Dexter was a direct influence on Sonny.

[@tomsmith522]

My two favorite tenor players 😅 thank you Bret for this beautiful video 💙🎶✡️🇺🇸

[@JazzVideoGuy]

My pleasure!!

[@FrictionFive]

What is the connection with Timothy Leary?

[@JazzVideoGuy]

He once gave Monk some "mushroom pills"

[@FrictionFive]

WOW!!! I wonder what Monk's experience was like... @@JazzVideoGuy

[@thomasarneson4511]

Like Sonny was on one of the first LP I bought. My FavoriteThings was first. Booker Ervin another good one.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

you have good taste

[@thomasespositio3139]

The Book indeed Cooked great Texas Tenor, with Rollins and Trane I always felt sorry for Hank Mobley who I thought was a wonderful player and writer

[@GeoCoppens]

...And Warne Marsh???

[@ErikLawrenceHipmotism]

Ironically for the entire decade of the 50’s neither won the tenor sax polls. Stan Getz did. Not in my book…

[@JazzVideoGuy]

History sometimes self corrects.

[@agchambers1]

There is the John Coltrane quote, "Everyone wants to play like Getz . . . "