Jazz for aficionados
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 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 |
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 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 |
