SLGHTR! 13x

This beat is called “Archimedes Guess Is As Good As Any”

Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins #jazz

Rest in Power Sonny Rollins 1930-2026

Produced by Pete Rock

Sonny Rollins died last night. One of my favorite Sonny performances ever is “I’ll Remember April” with Clifford Brown and Max Roach. It was recorded in 1956. 70 whole years ago. Shortly before Clifford Brown died in ‘56, again 70 whole years ago

@zoojew zing!

White men like to believe black excellence begins and ends with athleticism. Seeing a black man outperform them academically short-circuits the racial confidence they built on being intellectually superior.

The Williamsburg needs to renamed the Sonny Rollins Bridge.

@_DJShort There is only one correct answer 🫡

as far as official bands go, the Second Great Quintet is hard to beat - Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter i mean look at the material!

I spent Memorial Day smoking blunts and proving the Triangle Inequality Theorem

I proved the Triangle Inequality Theorem

Rest In Peace to the Saxophone Colossus, Master Teacher Sonny Rollins. One of the last, perhaps the very last of the beboppers. Thank you for everything.

What a master of jazz! May he rest in power. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Salute Sonny Rollins Forever. #PoPDuKe

How towering was Sonny Rollins? I was just reading that a young John Coltrane looked to him as one of the models for how he adjusted his sound between 1958 and 1960.

自分が最も影響を受けたであろう事。

ソニー・ロリンズはモヒカン刈りで初来日し衝撃を与えた、数年後にビートルズが変な髪型で登場しても日本のジャズファンは誰も驚かなかった。と亡父談。

Rollins vs Euclidean Geometry

95 years old is a good run but it's still sad to see people like Sonny Rollins go. Our elders are our gateway to the past. One of the last living people who knew Charlie Parker.

RIP Sonny Rollins. A magnificent musician, a spiritual presence. He was so focused, so deep, so strong. And he swung like a man who knew the cost of it. Of every note. When I heard him, I realized: Only an American could make a sound like that. Newk was one of our greatest.

Sonny Fuckin' Rollins

Newk Lives

"Not owning any Sonny Rollins records is like not owning any Aretha Franklin records--his sheer physical presence is something no aural sensualist should live without." -- Robert Christgau.