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Try to follow the bassist Kelly Sill, what does he feel listening to Sonny Rollins “St. Thomas”. It is absolutely great view inside a man’s feelings! You may present your impressions of other tunes in comments section.
“Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Rollins – Tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan – Piano
Doug Watkins – Bass
Max Roach – Drums
0:04 Max Roach begins a drum intro; this is actually a true calypso beat.
0:11 This is a lo-o-o-ng intro.
0:23 Beautiful. Sonny comes in––each note is a different length. Most are very short.
0:32 During the last section he plays longer notes. But each note length is very important.
0:45 Here is the second in-head. It’s almost identical to the first.
1:00 He continues with short notes. He develops a theme with only three or four notes.
1:07 He continues with the theme. Then he opens up with a bebop line.
1:10 Now he’s back to short notes.
1:15 His second chorus starts with an equally simple theme of short notes.
1:21 Now again he plays the bebop stuff.
1:23 Yeah, that’s stone-cold bebop.
1:31 He ended that phrase with the same short note phrase that he started with.
1:35 Now he’s taking his time, developing slowly the way that he did with short notes, but he’s using long notes.
1:41 Beautiful. He’s singing.
1:45 He also takes his time…
