Jazz for aficionados

@stuartk

I saw RTF live on the "Romantic Warrior" tour and caught the S. Clarke Band a couple times in the mid 70’s. That’s it for me...

Wow thats going back a half century. I was listening to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull, among many other rock bands that were popular in the 70s.

Seeing RTF was a great experience for me and I hope it was for you back then.

I just turned 60 and did not start listening to jazz until my late 30s. When I was in my early 20s I met The Modern Jazz Quartets bassist Percy Heath through his son Stewart. Stewart and I was working at the same construction site.

Anyway I was still heavy into rock and when Stewart told me of his father and his uncles Jimmy Heath and Albert "tootie" Heath I kinda brushed him off having no interest in jazz at that time in the mid 80s. If I only knew....

I have made up for my ignorance as a young man the last 3 decades and am much the better for it. I saw the Heath Brothers Band live in NYC 1n 2011, minus Percy who had passed on in 2005 and I loved it. Jimmy passed in 2020. Albert is still with us.

Percy

Percy Heath - YouTube

Jimmy

UNT Jazz Faculty: Jimmy Heath - The Rio Dawn (1995) - YouTube

Albert aka tootie

Emmet Cohen Trio W/ Tootie Heath | Live In New Mexico - YouTube

Sonny Rollins on Jimmy Heath

My Friend Jimmy Heath - Sonny Rollins - YouTube

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONNY ROLLINS 93 TODAY GOD BLESS!!

50s Sonny

Sonny Rollins Live in Europe 1959 - YouTube

60s Sonny

Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas - YouTube

70s Sonny

SONNY ROLLINS LIVE 1973 LAREN ft 増尾好秋. "There Is No Greater Love/Don’t Stop the Carnival/St. Thomas" - YouTube

80s Sonny 

Sonny Rollins: Live in Tokyo, Japan, March 30, 1988 - YouTube

90s Rollins

Sonny Rollins live in Belgium 1993 Part 1 - YouTube

21st Century Rollins

Sonny Rollins, Class of 2006 - Summit Performance with Savion Glover in Los Angeles - YouTube

Sonny Rollins - Jazz à Vienne 2011 - LIVE HD - YouTube

Interview with Aiden Levy, author of Sonny's biography Saxophone Colossus (I'm almost finished reading it and its one of the best bios I have read)

Sonny Rollins - The Untold Story: Sunday Night Live - YouTube

HBD

Sonny Rollins is definitely in my top twenty Jazz musicians.

Ahmad Jamal,   Ahmad’s Blues.

Excellent! 

@pjw81563

RE: RTF live-- I’m a few years older than you (67) and my first exposure to anything connected to Jazz was in 1972, when I first heard "The Inner Mounting Flame". The first track I heard was, if I remember correctly, "The Dance of Maya", which definitely blew my mind. But it didn’t inspire me to explore Jazz. That began about five years later and once started, pretty much snowballed. I wish I could find another genre to explore that stimulated me as much as my exploration of Jazz but I don’t think it’s gonna happen, at this point.

I heard the Heath Brothers (all three) when they still had Stanley Cowell on piano and have a few Jimmy Heath cds in my collection.