Sonny Rollins born Sep 7th

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
0:05
you want to be you want to get to the
0:08
inner spirit and sometimes you drink or
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you use drugs or you smoke a lot you do
0:13
all these things to try to get this
0:16
Spirit out so uh a jazz musician it's
0:21
it's it's a difficult it's a difficult
0:24
existence and a lot of the great
0:27
people that I've known and that in
0:31
history they kind of overindulge and
0:34
they never sort of able to
0:38
balance their their musical life with
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their personal
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life
0:43
[Music]
0:45
um maybe it's NE maybe it's not
0:48
necessary to do that that's another
0:51
question I don't know but I'd like to
0:54
see young musicians coming up that don't
0:59
smoke and that don't drink to excess and
1:02
don't use drugs and don't sort of
1:05
debilitate themselves I think that's
1:10
where we should go I think that's what
1:13
guys should be doing I don't think you
1:15
have to drink and use drugs to play good
1:19
jazz but that's been the model for so
1:23
long that a lot of guys get uh caught up
1:27
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/