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#354 - Remembering Sonny Rollins | Three For Thursday | News with Nick
Greg remembers Sonny Rollins, who passed this week at the age of 95. The “Saxophone Colossus” transformed modern jazz by pioneering thematic improvisation, using his robust, full-bodied tone to stretch the boundaries of hard bop and avant-garde styles.
Songs:
Sonny Rollins - “Strode Road”
Bill Evans - “Oleo”
Miles Davis/John Coltrane - “Oleo”
Wes Montgomery - “Airegin”
Sonny Rollins - “St. Thomas”
Jay gives us a musical interlude by way of a Three for Thursday. When traveling in L.A., he got an old Tom Tom Club track stuck in his head, and revisited some Kurt Vile. Last weekend, Sleepers made…
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