Sam Amidon

Soundtrack album released for Oliver Hermanus' 'The History of Sound' feat. score by 'Aftersun' & 'Pillion' composer Oliver Coates and songs written by Sam Amidon and performed by Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor & Briana Middleton. tinyurl.com/2c8x6xj3

I feel like Sonny Rollins sound is fullness. Fullness of life, of imagination, of purpose, of gratitude, of perception, of judgement. I think he saw the imperfections & immorality around him & adjusted w integrity. I sense so much love & compassion for us in his legacy

@roryisconfused Paul Brady Welcome Here Kind Stranger

Suggest folky music for me to listen to please 🙏

The NY Times presents a multi-faceted look at the life and career of Sonny Rollins, featuring a biography, interviews, and essential albums: nytimes.com/2026/05/25/art…

@malmesburyman the recognitions

I want to read an American postwar novel of high literary merit and I really don’t want to hear that I should read Cormac Macarthy. What should I read?

RIP SONNY ROLLINS ! ! ! I am forever grateful to our family friend Jack Wesley for bringing me to see Sonny Rollins in concert in 1998 in Amherst, MA. I didn't really know Rollins' playing or music then but I knew I was in the presence of a living legend. His tone and playing were extremely powerful and the sound is still in my ears. He played an epic solo cadenza at one point and a blazing version of St Thomas that had the whole hall up on their feet dancing. At the time in my teenage pretentiousness I saw that aspect of the show as a bit cheesy but now I recognise that he was bringing joy through his horn to all of those people. (One of the people I remember seeing dancing in the audience was the great Eugene Uman who runs the Vermont Jazz Center, he got it!) Since then I have spent years going ever deeper on his music. Some of my favourite Rollins albums are And The Contemporary Leaders, Way Out West, Our Man In Jazz, East Broadway Rundown, A Night At The Village Vanguard, The Bridge and the recently reissued live albums from Holland and Europe '59 with Henry Grimes on bass. Plus his sideman work with Miles Davis in the 1950s and of course Clifford Brown, and an amazing Kenny Dorham album with harp called "Jazz Contrasts" which John Coltrane studied extensively and wrote a tune based on a phrase Sonny Rollins plays on that record ("Like Sonny"). I also highly recommend listening to the Quarantine Tapes interview of Paul Holdengraber interviewing Rollins from a few years back. SONNY ROLLINS FOREVER ! !

This Sonny Rollins Jazz Casual episode is everything. With Jim Hall! youtu.be/a5dR0cHAYBQ?si…

Time to rename the Williamsburg Bridge to The Sonny Rollins Bridge @RollinsBridge

.@NYCMayor please rename the williamsburg bridge, the sonny rollins bridge. RT and share

Clear Sonny’s father’s name

Sonny Rollins playing on the Williamsburg Bridge with tenor saxophonist, arranger, and educator Paul Jeffrey in 1968. By 1959, Sonny Rollins had grown increasingly dissatisfied with what he felt were his own musical shortcomings and withdrew from the public eye to embark on the first—and most storied—of his self-imposed sabbaticals. Residing on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, he sought refuge on the pedestrian walkway of the Williamsburg Bridge, where he could practice without disturbing a pregnant neighbor. From the summer of 1959 until the end of 1961, Rollins returned to the bridge almost daily, playing for as long as 15 or 16 hours at a stretch, through heat, wind, and snow, alongside the rumble of passing trains. Today, a fifteen-story apartment building named The Rollins stands on Grand Street, marking the site of his former home—a quiet monument to one of the most disciplined and transformative chapters in jazz history.

RIP Sonny Rollins one of the greatest artists of our time

本当に本当に本当に大好きなソニー・ロリンズの訃報。彼の音楽にどれだけ救われてきたか、言葉に出来ません。心からの感謝を。素晴らしい音楽をありがとうございました。

This was such an insane run

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@fritzpape Live at the Village Vanguard, Way Out West, East Broadway Rundown

Incredibly sad to say that I'm basically completely unfamiliar with Sonny Rollins work - gonna have to fix that

One of the greatest ever. His music will live forever.

Peace and love to the god Sonny Rollins.

The Williamsburg needs to renamed the Sonny Rollins Bridge.

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