Sonny Rollins - Oleo

[nunchuckification]

i love how the top comment is about guitar... there is no guitar in this video

[DanDjembe]

friggin dawson plays licks that mortal drummers need to concentrate hard to play at half this tempo...

[PeterSparacino]

the physical saxophone almost seems to be an afterthought in this clip.

[teetpiece]

gotta rate dawson

[decus69]

Rollins hassuch huge ears!  Amazing lines and such a breakaway solo from the normal cliché bop Parkerite type of solo-amazing. A true lesson on Rhythm changes.

[piwithatsme]

@VonNashman or you can just learn all possible fingerings and make your own choices, thats how all the other instrumentalist learn it. And is just difficult for everyone

[Spectonimous]

No offense but I don't really like his sound. 2 me it sounds like noise.

[123must]

A true Master !

Thanks

[DajaWaja]

tabs are for pussies

[thedingalingz]

hvad hedder der dr program??

[BriansThing]

The changes in this song are freaking awesome

[Flatwound1000]

@BriansThing That's rhythm changes for you :D

[TheHammerbox]

Idk about tabs, I never used them and I turned out okay. Just always seemed like a wasted step... I am primarily a guitarist but I play trumpet too and guitar really is not that much harder to sight read on, nowhere near as bad as sight singing... sorry guys :/

[gregorymak]

4 people are deaf

[darkoanton5]

@gregorymak lol

[decus69]

@sopwithcamels266 I don't get it. But I can hear Rollins

[RoyalColaNews]

Sonny Rollins.

[doko73]

Sonny is a BEAST....

[sc06yl]

NHOP played a few gigs with Bill Evans, which is even cooler than playing with Oscar in my opinion. You can see it on the Live DVD that came out a while back, totally worth picking up, although the tune choice is a little disappointing. I would have liked to have seen more Evans originals.

[freddylebanon]

Pure Joy...

[sopwithcamels266]

Reply to mcmeekz.. Look kid, it's the music that counts,perhaps you will never work that out. if you've gone to the trouble of picking up my spelling,then it has told me all I need to know about you. Go get a life, jerk.

[aleksandersucharski]

that has very little to do with the music, but i would never suppose Sonny used to shave his head. he looks a bit like a G in this video :) not exactly your 'typical jazzcat' image.

[freejazzfighter]

PIKLAS KUSSEN !!!!!!!

[SolSorrell]

Oh this cat is great...and look...he's playing a Bundy, not a Mark VI. See, even if you are great, you can play a tomato can.

[Flagdue]

wow what a bad video. You have hear the head man. Solo is amazing though

[glassbreaker5791]

@Flagdue ...why would you need to hear the head in order for the video to be good? I feel like most people watching probably know what the head to Oleo sounds like.

[Flagdue]

@glassbreaker5791 I do agree with you on certain tunes like say cherokee where clifford browns solo is used instead of the head but for Oleo!!! come on.

[glassbreaker5791]

@Flagdue It looks to me as though the video cut into the middle of the performance, not as though they began without playing the head. Sure it's unfortunate, but there's only so many ways people can play through Oleo - besides, its not like there's gonna be some special interpretation of it, most people play through Oleo with very few alterations. It'd be nicer if the head was there, but it's not like it ruins the video.

[claryscat]

Dang Sonny! That wuz deep baby! Is there any doubt that he is the Saxophone Colossus? Love you Sonny!

[CreamerNation]

hold kæft det lyder fedt!

[Airwaven]

@kyjah73

Oscar is Canadian, Montreal sure ain't Amurrrrican

[OiPubes]

This is so fukin dope... Why the fukk did 4 people dislike this?

[asawang596]

that's Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mwljazzguitar]

@kyjah73 I'm pretty sure Oscar Peterson was actually Canadian.... but still, no relation to NHOP.

[laughingtiger123]

There is so much heavy underlying harmony in what he is playing here... the chord substitutions are brilliant.

[tentacionesss]

Dioooosss esque me corro...

[KickitWithBlarg]

love it. i cant decide if i like this or MF's cover better

[miguelkogui]

genail^^

[laughingtiger123]

FYI: he is playing a Beuscher tenor... really lame machanics, but a huge bell. He was playing around with it in '62-'64. If you look on the cover of Wayne Shorter's Adam's Apple lp, he is playing one, too.

[ksenos69]

Back and forth and left and right and all the inbetween. Colossus.

[GabeSlice]

wow pretty scary , rightup there with the best of the best

[frank12344321ful]

I keep coming back to this this video, its so f@@king great!!! So much energy!!! Sonny Rollins. What else can I say. Love it.

[Mattiaciancaleoni]

Best living tenor saxophonist

[scomdnz9]

amazing how sonny can look like hes only 30 and plays like hes 20. what a great musical mind!!!!

[davdev89]

yeeah! :))

[heru1966]

0:44 It's no secret that Branford Marsalis has been heavily influenced by Sonny. You can here it in this little section, that rhythmic way of playing.

[grrrroink]

@heru1966 I don't know Coltrane does that kind of thing quite often as well.

[heru1966]

When Sonny's in the zone, it's a force of nature.

[Dreadmonkey1]

Heard Sonny Quoting "Blues Walk" by Cliffard Brown in his solo...awesome

[sawrou]

On the bass the late NHOP (Niels Hennings Oersted Pedersen)

[AmundLauritzen]

Now this is something worth transcribing!

[FlattedSeventh]

IS THIS SONG PRONOUNCED O- LEE - O? OR O - LAY -O?

[WesMetheny]

@FlattedSeventh O-LEE-O.

[FlattedSeventh]

@WesMetheny Thanks!

[JeffreyMiddelveld]

wiehoe, i looove this! <3

[Snoohi1]

god even the NHOP was amazing

[gotmeagrape]

You can tell he's diggin whatever it is he's saying just how moving and talking with his horn like that lol

[Timok67]

friggin jealous

[RaiderEleven]

Thanks, Bruno: the "Saxophone Colossus" in great form and swinging hard with Niels and Allan, dropping lots of quotes from other songs, as usual. He pioneered the sax-drum-bass trio (the piano-less groups). Amazing!

[pianoquest]

it stinks that they don't get the head in this. Oh well, Sonny rocks

[harrytulchin]

HOW it is done! Bop crosses free

[carlocoseca]

Thank you, it's too much!!!!

[TheEyes629]

I'm not a big fan of bebop (and after all, who is), but no matter my musical taste, I gotta agree that this guy's GOOD. I hadn't heard about him at all until I ran across his name in association with Miles Davis.

[ajhjazz87]

@TheEyes629

...*raises his hand*....

[bonpasteur]

@TheEyes629 I think you'd be surprised how many (young) musicians today are continued to be inspired by bebop. It offers such a rich variety of inprovisational diversity; you can't play bebop unless you are more than comfortable with all the other aspects of jazzmusicianship. Tonality, feeling, timing, a profound knowledge of chords. Mixed together, with a tempo and a melody merely as a frame, soloing over rapid chord changes..'drop of a hat, these guys are rock and roll'.

[bonpasteur]

@TheEyes629 Anyway, I hope you get inspired. Enjoy!

[JazzAndBluesTV]

@TheEyes629 - So you're not a big fan of bebop - So What! Who cares what you think, just don't assume that others don't.... (btw - pun intended)

[earthchild100]

YEEEEESSS

[TheIsraDave]

greatest jazz instrumentalist of all time

[jonnyguidoG16]

yes Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark

love the sound of Sonny Rollins

[emanu0675]

is nice how he incorporates St. Thomas into hes solo.

[schnieef]

Kopenhagen is the capital of Denmark, isn't it.

[Drblooter99]

great how clean the notes are, and rhythmical.

[OlavTesswang]

I can't believe that he is playing in Norway

[chubbypuppys]

holy crap hes great

[germalon]

Genial!!

[Wamz1978]

My favorite Sax player

[NicolasCaes]

Wow, thanks for uploading!

[Coltranized]

Sick!

[jazzuffe]

Tabs, quotes, what? How he do it is fantastic, he is the best.

It is this story of Dexter at Montmartre this evening-- What he said is legend.'

The best. I can not go up and play there...

[billdaniel92]

tabs arent the devil, they have their place and it is not in jazz or classical. its for pop and rock, stuff thats not art music, its popular music.

[nylonsteel]

"tabs" were around hundreds of years Lute music was written in a early form of tablature.  To say guitarists cant ready charts or transcribe is also a ignorant statement.

[billdaniel92]

I am a guitar player. I started from tabs. They are a very good source to get you started. I personally don't feel that jazz and classical are tab friendly. I read charts, sheet music, and transcribe. I was trying to give some credit to tabs.

[AmundLauritzen]

Sonny has never disappointed me, he always has some fresh kind of surprise in every performance that just floors me. He has one of the most unique voices on tenor in jazz.

[sopwithcamels266]

@AmundLauritzen

Hey listen man I don't agree you need to study Rollins more.I've caught him live many many times over many years.Night after night sometimes.I will put you straight. Some nights he was terrible,but that is the thing.That is his message it is true and totally honest improvisation. I think he is one of the greatest improvisers certainly of the 20th Century. risk ,is what that makes him great. Your comments arn't a true reflection.

[grrrroink]

Ha, come one you don't need a tab for that. Just listen... Damn guitarists. ;)

[Vexus666]

Hehehehehe. It's tougher than one would believe to listen and tab it out alone. :D

I wish I could.

I only recently found about Sonny Rollins and... damn... this guy is a god on the Sax. :D

[devilstoaster]

seriously I wish tabs were never invented...

guitarists would be such better readers and transcribers...

[johnnyguitarcarson]

I Agree

[fuzzfactory]

Yup and I wish the string bass had never been invented... bassists would be such better tuba players.

[Tobey2k4]

Well, actually bassists would be much better double-basists. But I'm just being pedantic. :)

[moviemaker3000]

@devilstoaster You have a point, but they are oh so convenient. I'm a guitarist, but I've also played clarinet and saxophone for several years, and along with it I've learned how to read music and lots of music theory. Even though I've never learned to read music with guitar, I can figure it out if necessary.

[lonsimi]

@devilstoaster same for bass players

[jgl2222]

@devilstoaster The "Real" ones are better readers and transcribers

[VonNashman]

@devilstoaster I don't know what prompted this comment, but it's quite false. Guitarists are better readers because of tabs, as they are granted insights into how great guitarists executed passages, i.e. what fingerings were (likely) used to execute a passage. Sight-reading on guitar is extraordinarily difficult not because of tabs, but in spite of them -- the instrument offers so many possibilities for the execution of a musical line that the issue is not WHAT not to play but HOW to play it.

[CarlosMacMartin]

@VonNashman So the idiot who made that ridiculous TAB comment thinks John Dowland and Luys de Narvaez were pussies?! What can you expect from elitist assholes? Not much I guess! Unbelievable!

[VonNashman]

@CarlosMacMartin In this case the problem is less elitism and more ignorance, imo -- great point, btw, regarding Dowland and Narvaez.

[CarlosMacMartin]

@VonNashman You're right.More ignorant than elitist.I know and understand the development & evolution modern day guitar and where it originated.Most don't know that TAB was used by composers for the Lute &

Vihuela de Mano before notation was invented.

[clegghap]

@VonNashman your wrong, sorry but you are. No top jazz, blues or soul guitarist reads tabs. They all know how to sight read, this is the first thing all musicians should do and it's not "extraordinarily difficult". I know this for a fact because i have met a couple of the great guitarists. MAYBE one or two use tabs but i can assure you most sight read. :)

[VonNashman]

@clegghap You're wrong; sorry, but you are. Top JAZZ and CLASSICAL gutarists read (blues and soul, not so much), some very well, but very few SIGHT read well, especially when compared to musicians of similar caliber on other instruments. But aside from your misunderstanding, the original post was w/ respect to guitarists in general, not to "top" guitarists, who of course are generally all-around good musicians if they're a "top" guitarist.

[clegghap]

@VonNashman how are you so ignorant? just think about it. Here's an example, Miles Davis, the best trumpeter and jazz musician possibly of all time (along with Armstrong) and his band made his first and most successful album by him giving them their parts to play and on the first go they nailed it perfectly without ever seeing the piece of music. OK maybe jazz is mostly improvisations and progressions over a simple core riff but Classical? are you crazy? just research it, i can't be fucked.

[VonNashman]

@clegghap So you're saying some of the best musicians in the history of music were good at sight-reading. Wow, what a revelation! The original point by devilstoaster was the truly ignorant assertion that TABs make guitarists weaker readers, when in fact they are poor sight-readers for very different reasons (mostly due to the nature of the instrument itself). Wes Montgomery, the greatest Jazz guitarist ever, didn't read a lick of music, and somehow things worked out for him.

[VonNashman]

@devilstoaster Tabs aid in the process of a guitarist learning how to play particular musical passages. Even if tabs didn't exist, they would be invented, because guitarists are, rightly so, pre-occupied with where on the neck and with what finger a note should be played -- learning where a G is on the treble clef is easy, playing "Donna Lee," while not particularly easy for anyone, is supremely difficult on the guitar because there are so many ways to execute it. Ask 10 great guitarists to play

[VonNashman]

@devilstoaster it and you will get 10 different versions!

[saron380]

@devilstoaster Tabs came before the standard european notation system existed. But you're sort've right.

Tabs can be a good tool, but that's just it it's a TOOL not supposed to be a crutch for the budding muscian to use to escape reading

[GarethFowlerGuitar]

@devilstoaster Nothings stopping us from transcribing!

[franzjoseph88]

Amen, and I'm a guitarist.

[daSaboriGuitars]

I like the pace. Horns at slow pace...kills me

[sexymonkey0205]

Wow I wish I could just play my Tenor Sax like this in Jazz it would be a blast...Well a bigger blast then it is now :D

[jlevinsoul]

Unbelievable.  Pure genius. What can you say?

[fatboyslimqq]

anyone else catch that quote in the beginning? "Naturally" from annie get your gun?

[fanofmozart]

Good ear, my friend. Sonny is a master of quoting, right up there with Dexter Gordon. He did it in a minor key, and again at 2:21. "Folks are dumb, where I come from, they ain't had any learnin' " minor on "learnin.'" (Four years in the pit orchestra--best musical education you can imagine--thank you Bill Laskey and Paul Beringer.)

[beamochagirl]

isnt he from the islands? really good sax player

[thetornado]

He's from Harlem, his people came from the Islands.

[songsmadeforyou]

which islands?

[Moezel3]

Rottnest Island

[beamochagirl]

virgin islands

[ky5m]

Excellent !

[UltraMN]

Nobody can play this like sonny. He killed it without having to increase bpm.

[geraldcody]

Just nasty......I like this Sonny

[jazzuffe]

It is pure Yoj ...in this recording!! Fantastic.

[jazzuffe]

All quotes, what the fuck? It is so great and then NHÖP!

[cybertooth49]

What are you even trying to say?

[jazzuffe]

That this is the best music ever made ;-) And sorry, I know abot the quotes.

[BuckshotLaFunke]

At 0:11 he's quoting 'Doing What Comes Naturally' (Irving Berlin), one of his favourites.

[theLSJM]

to Vituwa: ты, парень, не тащи совковый мат в этот сайт. Здесь музыка, а не барахолка. Отряхнись...

[m0nkw]

master of phrasing

[mvanderg]

Sonny is the king!!

[Alino17]

Thank you. Sonny is a giant. Still is, though I keep in my heart his classic music best, his Prestige, Blue Note, RCA and Impulse recordings. This very b&w Rollins

[Timothy1357911]

Sonny is tough

Tough tone, Tough lines.

He even looks tough

pure man hahahaha

[jazzuffe]

It is NHÖP that make this!

[claudebardot]

Simply amazing!! I love it.

[pedrosteve]

3:08 Dexter gordon's quote

[ApatheticVegnagun]

A shame that the mic on this doesn't truly capture Sonny's huge sound. It sounds off. Still plays amazing stuff though

[BIGBOTTOM32]

does anyone know who the bassist is on this video?

[miphka66]

19 year old Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen

[redhouse7]

he is great btw i am having trouble finidngother vids of him when he was young

[vreterij]

19?

[Thouveninpascal]

65?

[teemingup]

@miphka66  Bloody well recorded. You can hear every note Niels Henning plays, apart from that little hop in the sound

[Efrenbarca]

woah! he was bald then! lol this guy does work...among one of my fav sax players, right up there w/ coltrane, joshua redman, and james carter.

[grandpasun]

Yeah Sonny is nearly 80 and he can still deal... I love it!

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

Sonny Rollins was one of the guys who could play anything, if free or free in a form. What an energy! Saw him in Cologne some years ago. He still has it.

Thanks for the video, and keep up the good work.

Bruno, a fan from Germany

[miphka66]

Bruno - Yeah, Sonny is the king, at least for me. Glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks very much.

[Oatcastle]

Thank God for Sonny Rollins. I love this era Sonny. Awesome.

[sinning1966]

Great stuff.

[mitjazz]

are you an assassin

[mandelbasshero]

This is how NHØP should be remembered! That sound is great!

[cflonnes]

i wish everyone in the world had youtube!

[saxylarry26]

Well I'm in total awe all over again.

[javijazztazz]

wow que chida interpretacion van a sacar un dvd de ese concierto el 30 de septiembre es la serie 3 de jazz icons

[la12chanino]

esta la version original del tema?? grabada por sonny rollins??

[lucianamorelli]

genial!

toca como quiere, hasta de costado!

[lucianamorelli]

genial!

toca como quiere, hasta de costado!