{"id":341,"date":"2010-09-14T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T11:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2010\/09\/video_for_fans_of_sonny_rollin\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:32:48","slug":"video_for_fans_of_sonny_rollin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/09\/video_for_fans_of_sonny_rollin.html","title":{"rendered":"Video for fans of Sonny Rollins &#038; harmolodics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too good to not post: Ornette Coleman was surprise guest with Sonny Rollins at his fast-become-famous Beacon Theater 80th birthday party on September 10 (backstage there was birthday cake shaped like a saxophone, made of marzipan). Note SR&#8217;s quote at about 10 minutes in of &#8220;I&#8217;ll Take Manhattan,&#8221; which he certainly did. [[As of 9\/15\/2010 this video has been removed from Youtube by it&#8217;s &#8220;user.&#8221; Research will follow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I_XraLbzQM0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z7g-YkEX2zQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object>&nbsp;And next is &nbsp;another priceless clip I&#8217;ve never come upon before, from the early &#8217;60s, of Sonny with trumpeter Don Cherry &#8212; Ornette&#8217;s brilliant partner &#8212; young Henry Grimes on bass and drummer Billy Higgins.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z7g-YkEX2zQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object>thanks to whoever made these public, though in the future &#8212; PLEASE get artists&#8217; agreements to film and make public . . . And the embedding is disabled, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aNXePvT5H0s&amp;NR=1\">here&#8217;s<\/a> Don Cherry playing Monk&#8217;s &#8220;Bemsha Swing&#8221; with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Billy Higgins, from New Orleans circa 1986.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email or  RSS<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too good to not post: Ornette Coleman was surprise guest with Sonny Rollins at his fast-become-famous Beacon Theater 80th birthday party on September 10 (backstage there was birthday cake shaped like a saxophone, made of marzipan). Note SR&#8217;s quote at about 10 minutes in of &#8220;I&#8217;ll Take Manhattan,&#8221; which he certainly did. [[As of 9\/15\/2010 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1006,1023,163,1021,8,60,1022,54],"class_list":{"0":"post-341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-beacon-theater","8":"tag-billy-higgins","9":"tag-don-cherry","10":"tag-harmolodics","11":"tag-herbie-hancock","12":"tag-ornette-coleman","13":"tag-ron-carter","14":"tag-sonny-rollins","15":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-5v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":338,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/09\/sonny_the_sax_king.html","url_meta":{"origin":341,"position":0},"title":"Sonny the sax king","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"September 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"At age 80, Sonny Rollins is indisputably the greatest living jazz tenor saxophonist, proved last night throughout a 2-hour set at New York's sold-out Beacon Theater in which harmolodic sage Ornette Coleman sat in, backed by drummer Roy Haynes and bassist Christian McBride, on \"Tenor Madness.\"\u00a0\u00a0\"Sonnymoon For Two\". 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Originally\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;main&quot;","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ornette-threadgill-murray-roney-e1404264891893.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ornette-threadgill-murray-roney-e1404264891893.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ornette-threadgill-murray-roney-e1404264891893.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ornette-threadgill-murray-roney-e1404264891893.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ornette-threadgill-murray-roney-e1404264891893.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ornette-threadgill-murray-roney-e1404264891893.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1870,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2015\/06\/ornette-coleman-returned-music-to-freedom-and-basics.html","url_meta":{"origin":341,"position":4},"title":"Ornette Coleman returned music to freedom and basics","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"June 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Sad news this morning: Ornette Coleman died at age 85. Triumphant news: Ornette Coleman returned music to its free-from-cant basics, emphasizing emotional communication and intuitive human interactions over any other elements in the dynamic, multi-faceted, immediate art form. 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