Sonny Rollins: What Jazz Is, and What Being a Jazz Musician Means To Me

http://www.sonnyrollins.com presents "Sonny Speaks," celebrating the 80th birthday of the Saxophone Colossus

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• tenor
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[grunt12394]

as a musician and a person i really respect what you do jazzvideoguy

[JazzVideoGuy]

@grunt12394 Thanks so much.

[MCgoogles1000]

"I play jazz probably because in the former existence I might have been a musician" What does that mean?

[JazzVideoGuy]

@MCgoogles1000 A reference to reincarnation.

[allthatjazz4you]

@MCgoogles1000 Indeed, reincarnation.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@allthatjazz4you Deja Vu all over again?

[LONGWINDING]

Jazz is freedom, except for those who are in the cage of learning and explaining scales, systems and too much rules. They often just play what they have learned, but they don´t play what the inner ear whispers to them. Freedom.......

[claptonfan1000000]

Wow!! 500 videos now!! Congratulations. I love your videos!

[Bugera369]

5:00 Pop Goes the Weasel haha

[ashrafilm]

@MCgoogles1000 he could be trying to say that in previous lives when there was no emanicipation for his people in particularly the african / carribean they was no chance of absolute freedom for expression, there was no voice, in this life since his birth there is the opportunity since freedoms were denied previous, there is the chance now to express and voice concerns and discuss and state through music, he does it perfectly.

[holyburn]

Brett, You have done so much for us...all of my gratitude to you.

[GabeSlice]

@MCgoogles1000 i think he believes in reincarnation

[MCgoogles1000]

@Hoopermazing I'm new to playing jazz : ( I'm only 16