Sonny Rollins - The Other Side of Charlie Parker - Day by Day with Bret Primack: 10/10/11

[0tt0ni0]

great

[JazzVideoGuy]

@0tt0ni0 Appreciate your kind word.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@0tt0ni0 thanks!

[TheAngel1870]

Bird is a superlative voice in alto sax and a great composer! I love Him!

[BrewskLitovsk]

Dear master Sonny -- We younger guys are pretty much aware that jazz is becoming more and more "invisible". Anyway, we will invest all our creative powers to not let that happen.

Jazz lives!

[BrewskLitovsk]

@BrewskLitovsk -- P.S.: ... and from becoming inaudible as well!

[nathanalexander28]

such quality videos! !

thanks JazzVideoGuy !!

[JazzVideoGuy]

@nathanalexander28 such quality viewers

[matoflash]

Again Bret, a great video.

Especially, the lines at the end of the video really touched me - please help me save jazz from becoming invisible...

You're doing the right thing, recording as much of Sonny as possible - he still has many untold stories...

[JazzVideoGuy]

@matoflash Thanks so much! Sonny doesn't like to do video interviews but I'll stay on his case.

[aarfeld]

@matoflash: Hear, hear! America is committing cultural genocide against its own greatest art form simply by neglect. There are few places in the country today where people can even casually encounter Jazz. So how would they know if they even like it or not if they aren't exposed to it?

[GMak79051]

Sonny thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. There's so much more to this music than knowing who played what and with whom, and on what date. It's cool to hear what was happening culturally and what Charlie Parker represented to people, and his place in the evolutionary process of the whole thing. As always...A great video Bret! Your blog is like going to Jazz College! 

[ALTERED13TH]

Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown were both musical geniuses and it's unfortunate that they both died rather young.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@ALTERED13TH Clifford's death, at 27, is one of the great tragedy's in Jazz.

[ALTERED13TH]

@JazzVideoGuy He was such a brilliant writer and his solos were amazing. His sense of lyricism and melody were incredible. I think Dahoud is one of his most amazing compositions.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@ALTERED13TH Totally agree. We lost Brownie at 27, Bird at 30, and Trane at 40. If only they'd stuck around a little longer.

[MrJeanPhilippe007]

@JazzVideoGuy Yeah but we still have Sonny and Wayne and we got Blue Mitchel, Miles and much more for much longer! It is sad to loose such a great musician as Brown but we have to choose between the dark or the bright side... I prefer the bright one myself.

[LEARNTOPLAYCRAPS]

@JazzVideoGuy Dahoud is an awesome Clifford tune. I love playing I Remember Clifford when busking. Such a nice tune about a tragedy that sent a shock through the Jazz world back in the day. I think that shock is still felt today with the absence of what he would have created for us to learn from and enjoy listening to.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@LEARNTOPLAYCRAPS Sonny Rollins always tells me he wishes could be one tenth the person that Clifford was.

[StromboliKicks]

still can't get into Parker's music. It sounds so complex, even for jazz.. maybe in the next years.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@StromboliKicks It took me years to finally "hear" Coltrane. Be patient, give it another chance a few months down the road.

[StromboliKicks]

@JazzVideoGuy will do , for sure. Don't know all the Coltrane records, but he too has some "heavy" stuff for my ears, like India, for ex.

[MrJeanPhilippe007]

@StromboliKicks Try to play the omnibook, it will help you getting the genius of his lines... It worked for me!

[StromboliKicks]

@MrJeanPhilippe007 Thanks for the tip. I also found "Charlie Parker for guitar", so I'll see what works better for me.

[MrJeanPhilippe007]

@StromboliKicks No problem ;)

[ValB222]

always love hearing about Bird, especially from someone who knew him! thanks, as always, Bret.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@ValB222 Bird lives!

[ViperEye]

Have you ever asked Sonny about his opinion of Hip hop/rap? Personally, i'm disgusted by it. I think it drags down the reputation of the average black man and how other people look at them. What happened to the legacy of such richness that they provided to the world in earlier times?

I always wondered, what comes after rap? Where does this thing go? What's the next stage in the "spirit of the times"... ?

[GalacticEarthling]

I'm 15 now and I'm into Jazz XD

[DavesTrumpet]

1:57 Buddy Rich on drums and Mitch (Sing Along With Mitch????) Miller on English horn? That's odd!

Great video. Thanks for sharing. Rollins truly is the last of the greats.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@DavesTrumpet That's from the Bird with Strings session. Good eye, DavesTrumpet 4!