Et fulltallig pressekorps møtte opp foran scenen etter Sonny Rollins sin konsert på Romsdalsmuseet. Men Rollins lot vente på seg, og bare NRK p2 og våre tre standhaftige reportere fra Radio Revolt trosset regnet for et mulig møte med saksofonisten. Og ventingen gav resultater. Vi deltok på en eksklusiv pressekonferanse der Sonny Rollins fortalte om musikken, samarbeidet med bandet, gamle dager og hvordan han fortsatt inspireres ved å lære nye ting og fortsatt komponere nye stykker.

The lost chord of music

The band you presented for us today is across the generations. Where do you find these excellent musicians that really goes so deeply into your tradition?

It’s hard, I have to audition a lot of people. My bass player has been with me for a long time, but the other people are much younger, they come and go. It’s very difficult to get a band where people stay together, because everybody wants to do their own ambition. I’m fortunate to have these people that I have now. It takes a while to get people together that want to stay together.

For this tour you have chosen a quintet, is there a particular reason for that?

No, the goal is to find people that feel the same way about music. It’s like looking for the lost chord of music. There’s a sound, a chord that you want. We don’t know what it is, but we know it’s there.

Tidløst repertoar

Rollins har vært med på å forme jazzen siden midten av nittenhundretallet, og er å regne for en av de viktigste stilskaperne. Under konserten spilte han eldre låter fra sitt repertoar, der «Nishi» fra hans album «Sonny, please» utgitt i 2006 var den nyeste. I tillegg fremførte han klassikere som «In a Sentimental Mood» av Duke Ellington.

You stick to your old tunes. Why?

We have played a new song on this tour, but we didn’t play it tonight because we needed to play something that everybody in the band could get to right away. But we do have some new songs.

The song “Nishi” lasts a long time, it builds and builds. How do you keep it going and make it still more exiting all the time?

That’s what I try to do, we don’t want things to go downhill. The music has to have life, it has to have energy and it has to have feeling. Music and life is going on, and we want that energy. It never ends, we could still be playing.

Utviklingen fortsetter 

Turneen Sonny Rollins nå er ute på er i anledning hans 80. bursdag. Siden slutten av førtitallet og fram til i dag har han preget jazzlandskapet med sin originalitet og egne uttrykk. Han utstråler fortsatt en sterk energi på scenen, og et driv som øker i intensitet gjennom hver låt.

Where do you find your inspiration?

I feel that I’m still studying. I practice my saxophone every day and I’m still trying to write music and compose. I’m not sitting back saying “I did that”. I’m still involved in music and trying to get better at it. My inspiration is in that I’m still doing it.

On this tour, is it still like you and your musicians interact in new ways and create new aspects of the songs as you go along? Do the songs change?

They change every night. That’s why we play the same songs, but they sound different all the time. When I start improvising on a song it’s something new, I couldn’t do the same thing I did last night if I wanted to. It’s coming out all the time something different, like life.

 

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