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   Sonny Rollins born…

   
   

   07 September 2025

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   Sonny Rollins born and raised in harlem
   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins
   
   St. Thomas
   Tenor Sax : Sonny Rollins Piano : Kenny Drew Bass : Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen Drums : Albert "Tootie" Heath
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4DTR0I7xhA
   
   
   Oleo 
   with Miles Davis + Bags' Groove
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aflCJy8NY1c
   
   
   Doxy
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWreJOSbIQQ
   
   
   Airegin
   https://youtu.be/v7PU7e6ZJe4?si=aM41zR-SbaQqwnvW
   
    
    
   Sony Rolins on being a jazz musician
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fnw9ddw6Lk
   
    
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   the life of a jazz musician is a
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   difficult life because you want to play
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   you want to be you want to get to the
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   inner spirit and sometimes you drink or
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   you use drugs or you smoke a lot you do
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   all these things to try to get this
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   Spirit out so uh a jazz musician it's
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   it's it's a difficult it's a difficult
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   existence and a lot of the great
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   people that I've known and that in
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   history they kind of overindulge and
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   they never sort of able to
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   balance their their musical life with
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   their personal
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   life
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   [Music]
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   um maybe it's NE maybe it's not
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   necessary to do that that's another
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   question I don't know but I'd like to
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   see young musicians coming up that don't
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   smoke and that don't drink to excess and
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   don't use drugs and don't sort of
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   debilitate themselves I think that's
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   where we should go I think that's what
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   guys should be doing I don't think you
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   have to drink and use drugs to play good
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   jazz but that's been the model for so
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   long that a lot of guys get uh caught up
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   in that you know
    
   Rollins is the only one alive who is an adult musician in this photo, fitting he is a Harlemite
   A Great Day In Harlem from Art Kane 1958
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Great_Day_in_Harlem
   
   Musicians in the photograph
   Red Allen
   Buster Bailey
   Count Basie
   Emmett Berry
   Art Blakey
   Lawrence Brown
   Scoville Browne
   Buck Clayton
   Bill Crump[17]
   Vic Dickenson
   Roy Eldridge
   Art Farmer
   Bud Freeman
   Dizzy Gillespie
   Tyree Glenn
   Benny Golson
   Sonny Greer
   Johnny Griffin
   Gigi Gryce
   Coleman Hawkins
   J. C. Heard
   Jay C. Higginbotham
   Milt Hinton
   Chubby Jackson
   Hilton Jefferson
   Osie Johnson
   Hank Jones
   Jo Jones
   Jimmy Jones
   Taft Jordan
   Max Kaminsky
   Gene Krupa
   Eddie Locke
   Marian McPartland
   Charles Mingus
   Miff Mole
   Thelonious Monk
   Gerry Mulligan
   Oscar Pettiford
   Rudy Powell
   Luckey Roberts
   Sonny Rollins
   Jimmy Rushing
   Pee Wee Russell
   Sahib Shihab
   Horace Silver
   Zutty Singleton
   Stuff Smith
   Rex Stewart
   Maxine Sullivan
   Joe Thomas
   Wilbur Ware
   Dicky Wells
   George Wettling
   Ernie Wilkins
   Mary Lou Williams
   Lester Young
   Interactive
   http://www.seewah.com/a-great-day-in-harlem/
   
   

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