Sonny Rollins: Music is Meditation

http://www.sonnyrollins.com presents Sonny Rollins talking about how he tries to improvise with a clear mind.

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Music

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• Sonny
• Rollins
• Bret
• Primack
• Tenor
• Saxophone
• Jazz

[fenix9885]

Thanks for sharing! Where do you get these videos? Amazing!

[JazzVideoGuy]

I make these videos! That's where I get them.

[MichaelLydon]

Beautiful--Sonny's vision of music, and the gorgeous image, Sonny against the green!

[TheDharmaRain]

Mu-shin Jazz :)

[kfdisawesome]

@royallighting7 ehh.... u can look at it like that but u have to realise that there is a difference between thinking of what your playing over, and thinking about what your playing ya dig?

[seulbzzaj]

Thanks for creating and uploading these fascinating interviews of Sonny Rollins. Ifirst heard Soony Rollins live when I was 16 years of age at the vanguard in NYC. Heis such an inspiration as a human being,and has attained thehighest level of musicianship, yet he continually strives for more. Heis one of thepremiermusicians that our country and world has produced.

[royallighting7]

i have to disagree with Sonny. I believe that it's not that one shouldn't think while playing, but that they should focus their thoughts on what their inspiration is.

[JohnBlank12]

I run workshops on meditation & music without “thinking” using meditation and a feeling approach to improvisation. I plan to do this also “virtually” over the net. The workshops are also for “non musicians” that want to enjoy the fusion of music and meditation for self healing, fun and enhancing ones appreciation of music.

[dabawla]

A true master.

[earthchild100]

inspirational. thank you

[pyannaguy]

These reflections. like a gas, expand to fill the space alloted for them. When thinking of EVERYTHING as a limitless whole (hole? :-) and not just music - there's a point beyond which thinking or conceptualizing adds or brings nothing further.

Sonny's deep. When it's time to say Goodbye to himself at last, I bet he'll be ready (or at least not too surprised.).

[Simbai69]

i have always noticed that the music that makes me feel better (in the healing sense), almost always comes from cats that are always working in their lives. I'm sure that in Sonny's case, some part of every moment of his life has been Meditation of some sort, even the hard times.

[felixrockss]

This guy has class , thats why he became who he is .