Sonny Rollins Polar Music Prize 2007 Award Ceremony

[funkeemon]

I love European audiences, they are deep!!!!!!!!

[Aggeasy]

legend

[selmansax]

Royalty, class in the highest order. One of our greatest artists.

[NyabinghiJazz]

thanks 4 posting this

[closdi]

what is the name of the latin song in the beginning of this video?

[minnesceongo]

@closdi "Don't Stop the Carnival"

[jazzuffe]

It is impressive when Sonny gives credit to Sweden, intressting.

[pkzathruz]

well it might have to do with the fact that he is receiving an award from sweden. if he received an award from holland i don't think he mentions sweden. he was apprecaited early in sweden, but that is besides the point

[TheRealManzilla]

Bet that George Bush never gave any of America's musicians any awards

[dreadtodred]

sonnyssaxisunbelievable

[otnas01]

alas the One great surviving Master! Nuff respect to Sweden for this honour.

[mshakhz]

LOL I thought the kind was Brecker for a second.xDD

[teemingup]

These are Swedes playing for the guest of honour, and they are in Sweden. So what's the big deal. It's fantastic for Sonny to get the prize, and he feels honoured. So what else do you need?

[saxylarry26]

GIVE IT UP FOR Sonny Y'all.

[connsax58]

all these white musicians are playing his tunes and he`s sitting in the audience?why doesn`t he play?

[expandexpo]

When you get an award you dont play.

[pkzathruz]

it must be the fact that they are WHITE i guess. what the fuck are these honkeys thinking playing sonny. outrageous. nothing good could come of white people learning a bit of black culture. i wish they would stay ignorant.

[connsax58]

but dude on the other hand its f****** hard to play oleo or stuff like that in front of his composer^^

[liamjazz]

You are a racist idiot! Sonny would be ashamed to be associated with you.

[pkzathruz]

yeah maybe liamjazz. unless i was being sarcastic and trying to point out the absurdity of connsax's post. he apparently thinks it would have been more acceptable had there been black musicians playing his tunes. sorry if it went over your head. i think there might be more criteria that needs to be met, other than not being racist, for sonny to be proud to be associated with someone though.

[expandexpo]

Agreed!

[spumoni666]

OMG what a simplistic statement, shame on you

[pkzathruz]

as far as simplistic statements go, yours probably trumps mine as it is incredibly vague and you make no effort trying to explain your criticism.

[spumoni666]

you are not on mt level dude

[pkzathruz]

proofread dude! what level is that? you tube comment extraordinaire? sorry, if i offended your sensibilities. let's move on , shall we?

[RHODESLOO]

This is a real civilized country . I am very sad that my country-Greece- is far back away in understanding , providing , and honor these kinds of music and their musicians too...

We mostly try to imitate eastern Arab kind of music mixed with bouzouki and swinging girl's butts....

Sad if you think that music is a Greek word....

[BirdLives88]

ouch, so why can´t we see more of great jonas?

[saxylarry26]

This is about Sonny, not the Sweedish kid.

[reujack]

this is wonderful. touches me greatly. but it also saddens me.... the same old sad story.... american indifference towards its true greats... (sigh!!!!!)

[divajc]

A great triumph for American Classical Music!

Diva JC

[valjazz]

Thank you so much for posting this.

[billytaylorjazz]

Sonny Rollins is the Dalai Lama of Jazz.

[JazzVideoGuy]

Interesting....check out the video, Sonny Rollins, Buddhist here on YouTube.

[trane1959]

Dave Lalama?

[JazzVideoGuy]

no Ralph

[vlkoslak27]

there is a dave lalama also, its his brother.

[ChangitoMalo]

Nice to see a living legend get honored will he's still with us.

[JazzVideoGuy]

Yes, he is still with us and most deserving of this honor. His acceptance speech gives some indication of what really matters to him.