Guestbook

Tuesday, 24 April 2012 12:07 IP: 108.217.208.9

Big fan. Saw you at The Village Vanguard with my friend and mentor Bill Scarlett. I just put you on my Pinterest to spread the music. [pinterest.com]

Bye
Mike Edging

Tuesday, 24 April 2012 06:33 Host: r190-135-19-25.dialup.adsl.anteldata.net.uy

Hi Newk,
When will you come to South America?
Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, there´s thousands of us needing to hear you.
I´ll be waiting!
Cheers,
Bato

Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:39 IP: 123.62.67.42

Dear rollins
i am a graduating highschool student from China. In my life, i lived without music and lifegoal,but occasionally I listened to your music.It lift me up. Since then I know what the soul if saxphone is. my parents don't love music,i have wracked my mind and heart to my parents for freely learning music and having a chance to America to listen to your music. I am just a nobody from China for you,even i can't speak fluently English,but you take me into the music world. You mean so much to me. I plead for a chance to meet you and listened to your music during this summer vacation.
zouhanbang China

Wednesday, 18 April 2012 07:15 Host: 174-22-32-78.chyn.qwest.net

Sonny! You're the greatest! Wish I could catch a concert this year, but you're not really playing anywhere near Wyoming, I see. Funny story: I caught a show in Montpelier, VT, 25 years ago or so. At intermission, I grabbed a lemon ice in the lobby, which got my fingers all sticky. I went to the men's room to rinse my hands off and there at the urinal, right next to the sink, was ... yes! You! Taking a leak. "How's it goin'?" you asked me as I washed my hands. I've always imagined you thought I sneaked in just to watch you piss, but, no, really, I had these gross, sticky fingers, really. Anyway ... my brush with your greatness. Be well! And thanks for all the AMAZING music!

Monday, 16 April 2012 19:28 Host: pool-72-89-46-155.nycmny.fios.verizon.net

Hey "Newk" when are you going to have a gig in the BIG APPLE?

Thursday, 12 April 2012 10:38 Host: admin-144-206.potsdam.edu

Love your music and your genuine improvisation style, constantly creating new melodies and building them up. Certainly an influence as I build my own style.

Wednesday, 11 April 2012 05:56 Host: host81-158-249-111.range81-158.btcentralplus.com

Hi Sonny,

Please come to sunny Cornwall, UK!

We need your tunes man!

Love

The Big F.

Wednesday, 11 April 2012 04:10 IP: 145.253.163.210

Dear Sonny, have my ticket for your jazz à Juan concert !! Looking forward very much!!! Please take care of yourself!! Best wishes for you and your beautiful music!

Friday, 6 April 2012 10:21 IP: 170.146.225.4

Are there any plans to play a concert in the New York area for 2012?

Tuesday, 3 April 2012 16:48 IP: 99.254.72.225

Just watched your Live in Vienna DVD. Absolutely fantastic stuff. Can't wait to see you in Detroit in August.
best wishes,
joe Nolan

Monday, 26 March 2012 18:28 Host: pool-96-248-51-151.pghkny.fios.verizon.net

Hi Sonny -
After speaking with you today I went home and spent quite some time listening to your music...wow! Love the Jazzfest '11 video on youtube - talk about a small world...one of my best friends works for WWOZ in New Orleans and worked that stage! I will definitely be listening more. It was a pleasure to "meet" you unexpectedly! You're a lovely man, all the best ~
Lisa

Monday, 26 March 2012 09:36 Host: germ-cfp7981.german.lsa.umich.edu

2 shows in Michigan!!! We were wondering how we were going to manage to get to Europe as we wanted to hear a concert in 2012! Wow! Thanks! We will buy tickets now for both shows!
Noah still loves to listen to you, Sonny, and your band. We are very much looking forward to seeing you!
Catherine

Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:31 IP: 101.115.51.123

I just read your interview in Terry Gross, 'All I did was ask.' I was gob-smacked by the simplicity and credibility of your answers. What a beautiful answer to the Q, 'What did you learn about yourself ...?' You communicated the 'classic battle' in a way that is a model to us all. Thank you. As we say, 'Until 120 years!'

Thursday, 22 March 2012 06:39 Host: no-dns-yet-assigned.orbital.net

I've been to about four or five Sonny Rollins gigs at the Barbican in London. The last was in 2007, when I got backstage to meet him (and my wife gave him some of her world famous chocolate brownies!). I was going to go to the 2010 gig but my son had been born in 2009 and I just couldn't warrant the time and cost. But when I heard Sonny was back at the Barbican for 2012, I thought I would actually go and also find out if my son - who'll be three years old in July - would be allowed to come also - he can recognise saxophones and sing along to Sonny's tune St Thomas (I did used to play it at my wife's stomach when he was inside!). However, to find out that within a day, most tickets had gone but even worse, that all stall seats and even further up in the Gods were £75 each, meant I have had to decide not to go. £75 buys a week's shopping almost... £75 gives me more than a tank of fuel in the car... £75 pays for half a term of pre school for my son! Who is pricing these concerts, is it the Barbican or the artist's management? It means Joe Public can't go see the guy, only lying solicitors and politicians can afford to frequent these gigs and the same applies at Ronnie Scotts. Whilst the common man is left out on a limb. I was really hoping to go this time but I definitely can't now. Oh well, I'll live with the fond memories of our meeting with Sonny from 2007.

Thursday, 1 March 2012 12:12 IP: 38.110.6.227

I am truly inspired by Mr. Rollins, happy to share love of the same musical craft. What I take from My Rollins is the amazing fact that the practice NEVER stops. Its all about the love of the music. (My instrument is drums)
Truly appreciative,
Tami

Tuesday, 28 February 2012 13:58 Host: grnsvr4.bellatlantic.com

Sonny, downloaded Saxophone Colossus recently and listen to it everyday. I am sad to see that you arent scheduled to do any shows in 2012 in the New England/Boston area. Will this be changing? I look forward to seeing a Jazz legend like yourself in the near future! Thanks for the great music.

Monday, 20 February 2012 07:44 Host: 84-73-68-231.dclient.hispeed.ch

Dear Mr. Rollins
Thank you for being such an inspiration for so many years, you make this world a better place.

Saturday, 18 February 2012 02:39 Host: APoitiers-651-1-153-142.w86-201.abo.wanadoo.fr

Amazing doc's last night on BBC4. Mesmerised. Total fan x

Friday, 17 February 2012 16:10 Host: cpc36-pool12-2-0-cust245.15-1.cable.virginmedia.com

Many thanks Sonny for Two great shows just watched on BBC 4, Hope they are soon to be out on DVD,

Friday, 17 February 2012 16:00 IP: 2.25.146.56

I am listening to Sonny Rollins on BB4 and he is superb. Beautiful music. Love the guitarist Yoshaki Matsuo, he's so intense and into playing the guitar, camera loving him, Sonny plays with enormous energy without losing his breath! Amazing.

Friday, 17 February 2012 14:25 Host: 79-68-65-48.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com

Brilliant, Sir. Listening & watching on BBC4

Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:07 Host: D979D68E.cm-3-2d.dynamic.ziggo.nl

Dear Sonny,

I wrote a song for you CALYPSO MAN, because I admire you as saxophoneplayer. The way you play is based on freedom in your head. And that's great. I play the song with my band. You can listen to it:

[www.youtube.com]

and than TEULE/POSCH BAND with CALYPSO MAN

Thanks for your music


Victor Posch
[www.victorposch.nl]
The Netherlands

Monday, 6 February 2012 14:47 IP: 86.184.28.185

Sonny, I could listen to you play every day for the rest of mylife and never get bored. Thanks for the music, the joy and the inspiration to be a better person and a better musician.

Thursday, 2 February 2012 03:47 Host: cpc36-pool12-2-0-cust245.15-1.cable.virginmedia.com

Great News for anyone who can get BBC i-player re the front notice on two shows on BBC 4 on Feb 19th, they should be available on I Player after Broadcast.

Sunday, 29 January 2012 19:43 Host: 151-135-19-190.fibertel.com.ar

Dear Sonny
You are the last of my great heroes of jazz musicians alive (1 to 15). It would be an extraordinary experience to assist this year to some of your public performances with my hole family.But I am not sure that I have the complete itinerary you will do during 2012.¿Would you please send me it?
Congratulations, not for the President award, wich is nothing, but for the autenticity of your music and playing. You know that you had reached long time ago a level only accesable for two dozens persons in the whole history of jazz. With great effort and sapiencia.
With love to your work,
[email][/email]Mario Morando & family

Saturday, 28 January 2012 17:54 Host: c-68-40-100-61.hsd1.mi.comcast.net

Dear Sonny,

After reading and watching some of your interviews and listening to some of your music, I felt I should say something about how much respect I have for the way you live your life and how dedicated you are to your music.

I love your style of playing. You're an amazing saxophonist, I love listening to your music.

I'm currently a junior in high school. I play the acoustic bass and you are one of my main influences, both musically and philosophically.

Sincerely,
Ethan

Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:56 Host: cache-ntc-ac07.proxy.aol.com

In 1967 I was 22 and working late in a stationary store on Madisaon Ave and 43rd St. I was ready to close when in you came dressed ina camel top coat, I recognized you and exclaimed, :You're Sonny Rollins", you said "Yeah I know" Sonny you spent twenty minutes with me that night, and I will never forget it. thank you, for all these years of grat music and a memory that will live with me forever. Congrats on the honors you so richly deserve

Monday, 16 January 2012 15:41 Host: port-954.pppoe.wtnet.de

Schöne Seite :)

Saturday, 14 January 2012 08:42 Host: MH-ESR1-72-49-189-150.fuse.net

Dear Sonny,

Congratulations on your recent award.

Thursday, 12 January 2012 15:35 Host: pool-173-70-72-76.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net

Just watched the Robert Mugge film. Inspiring, man. I have been doing yoga for 3 years (Iyengar/Kundalini), meditating(vipassana) for 7-8 years.

When I was a college senior you played at my school, Penn State, around 1985, I was a stage tech and handed you a 'canon connector' This week I remembered that and got some of your videos.

Peace be with you, and what a spiritual metaphor for breathing, listening to your songs!

Thursday, 12 January 2012 06:41 Host: pool-96-233-100-210.bstnma.fios.verizon.net

I had a strange dream last night (1/11/2012). You were playing in a small club with just a couple of people in the audience including myself. I knew you and couldn't believe that you were working in obscurity and struggling. I invited you home because you had no where to stay.
Funny thing is, I am not a "fan" and when I awoke I had to Google you to find out who you were. But you look exactly as I had seen you in my dream, you were playing a sax and singing, and I remembered your name. But frankly, I had no idea who you were/are until I looked you up.
Now I'm 63 and it seems unlikely that I have never heard of you. I might have owned (or had a roommate who owned) an album by the Modern Jazz Quintet.
Very freaky. Vivid. Just thought I would share it with you in case you dreamed a similar dream about a pasty white guy in his 60's. I'll check out some of your music too.

Wednesday, 4 January 2012 04:46 IP: 145.253.163.210

Dear Sonny,
Looking forward dionysically to one of your European concerts!!
Ina Barbara

Saturday, 31 December 2011 09:07 Host: 70-139-85-63.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net

Congrats on your 2011 honors!Thanks for the timeless music over the years.Please come back to Austin soon!

Friday, 30 December 2011 10:11 IP: 108.11.191.201

Mr. Sonny Rollins,

Thanks for being a gracious ambassador for the Music World & the innovators of the "Golden Age of Jazz".

Congratulations on your recent Kennedy Center's Honor.

Thursday, 29 December 2011 09:43 Host: pool-74-103-37-129.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net

Sonny, I miss you on Facebook! It's my fondest wish to see you in 2012 and to tell you in person how thrilled I am to share space in the universe with you :) To hear you speak about Jazz, to know that you are still playing with vigor and courage and creativity - it means the world to me and to so many of us! God bless you always - I will never forget how kind you were to me, publicly, a few months back. Congratulations on your Kennedy Center Honors!

Wednesday, 28 December 2011 12:35 IP: 147.55.184.174

Saw you last night on Tavis Smiley, and you're looking great! My wife called me in from the other room when she saw you were appearing. She's not a huge jazz person, but she knows who the heavyweights are. All the best for 2012!

Wednesday, 28 December 2011 12:31 Host: adsl-66-126-39-157.dsl.anhm01.pacbell.net

Congratulations on the Kennedy Center Honors. What a journey! Thank you for the wonderful music.

Wednesday, 28 December 2011 09:02 Host: cpe-98-148-238-35.socal.res.rr.com

You are smooth man. I have always loved Jazz. Before I knew who you were I loved hearing your sax.
Congratulations on the Kennedy Center Honors and thanks for the music.

Tuesday, 27 December 2011 20:02 Host: pool-173-75-4-225.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net

Congratulations on you Kennedy Honor. It is well deserved!

Monday, 26 December 2011 08:47 Host: cpe-174-103-210-1.new.res.rr.com

LOVE YOUR SOUND

Friday, 23 December 2011 14:19 Host: w169197.wireless.fsr.net

Thanks for all the great music and congratulations on your award, it was long overdue.

I was wondering what kind of tenor do you play?

What kind of mouth piece and of reed do you use?
Thanks
Bob

Monday, 19 December 2011 20:05 Host: pool-173-68-14-182.nycmny.east.verizon.net

Congratulations Mr Rollins! If only there were a higher honor the country could give you.....You're 80th Birthday at the Beacon was the best I've ever seen you play and thank you for putting out the gig on Road Trips. We wish you a trip up the aisle to grab that Grammy. Life is Real!
Thank you sir.

Sunday, 18 December 2011 22:55 IP: 68.33.9.237

Hello Sonny,

I am a huge fan of yours. I am 28 and live in DC and started playing saxophone a little over a year ago. You have been a major influence and I wanted to say thank you for all of your hard work! A
-Matt

Wednesday, 14 December 2011 19:10 Host: bas1-peterborough62-1096640605.dsl.bell.ca

It is a great honour to sign the guestbook of Sonny Rollins, a very great man and a very great musician, and one of the very most powerful positive influences on my life. Thank you, Sonny, THANK YOU!

Michael

Saturday, 10 December 2011 16:56 Host: cpc1-orpi1-0-0-cust247.2-3.cable.virginmedia.com

Hi Sonny,

I have always dreamt of playing the saxophone like you do, at the moment am studying with a alto sax and am finding it interesting. I get a lot inspiration listening to your tracks. My favorite track is "should I care" it releases the the stress after a hard days work.

I wanna thank you for your immense contribution to jazz and jazz music.

Thursday, 8 December 2011 05:28 IP: 145.253.163.210

Good Morning, dear Sonny, Today the sun is shining bright here - maybe at your NY-sky too? Congratulations to the Kennedy Center Award - this is great! Thank you so much for your love, imagination and esth_ethic spirit. I'll write you soon. Please, take care of yourself! Love*, Barbara

Tuesday, 6 December 2011 13:58 Host: cpc36-pool12-2-0-cust245.15-1.cable.virginmedia.com

Great interview, Sonny, Congratulations on the award, I hope to see the show if it broadcast on the Net.Stay warm and safe through the winter,best wishes for the Christmas holiday and the New Year,from the south of England...many thanks for Road Shows Vol 2.

Monday, 5 December 2011 23:09 IP: 58.178.195.10

Dear Mr Rollins,

One of my proudest boasts is that I saw you perform in Boston in 1992. To breathe the same air as you is an honour.

You are a treasure and an inspiration to everyone. Bless you, unique man.

Monday, 5 December 2011 11:26 IP: 77.99.22.0

Thank you for the wonderful concert at The Olympia in Paris on 14 November. It was truly a special occasion not only for me, but for everyone who was there. Would it be possible to put your set list from that night on your website? Best wishes and many congratulations on the Kennedy award.

Monday, 5 December 2011 10:50 IP: 195.42.109.202

I wish you all the Best Sir!

Monday, 5 December 2011 09:31 Host: nc-184-3-27-68.dhcp.embarqhsd.net

Sonny, I used to live next door to you and Lucille in Germantown NY. I used to watch your mother-in-law and your dogs when you went out of town. I moved from the area in 1981 when I got married to Scott DeCicco. Think of you often. We moved to NC in 1996, brought Mom with us. We had three children, two of which are in Heaven now. We currently have two grandchildren that live in Massachusetts with their father, our son, Michael. Give us a call sometime, 919-742-6038.

Monday, 5 December 2011 07:44 Host: 1.184.111.109.sta.211.ru

hi all.Very good site.

Sunday, 4 December 2011 21:18 Host: 68-170-39-162.mammothnetworks.com

Sonny your music has inspired me, hearing you play at 80., make me want to keep on playing. I hope I can still pay when I am 80. Hope I can see you play live someday. Come to the mid west. Davenport or Chicago soon Sonny.
Take care Sonny.
Slack Man

Sunday, 4 December 2011 19:44 Host: ool-18becca2.dyn.optonline.net

Newc: Congrats!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, 4 December 2011 10:17 Host: pool-108-21-7-159.nycmny.east.verizon.net

Congratulations and well deserved. I am priviledged to know Sonny and Sonny knows me. I will be watching the Kennedy Honors when aired.
Love, Paula Morris, daughter of Maxine Sullivan

Saturday, 3 December 2011 10:54 Host: hpv178170116229.ikoula.com

Sonny you make great music for us! Thanks!
[snoreworry.com]

Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:18 IP: 98.14.145.135

dear sonny.....i'm a classical musician/composer who also loves jazz. i
think your tune, "oleo" is one of the greatest jazz compositions of all time. Bravo!...and E. Dolphy's rendition of your tune-- where he plays Bass Clarinet-- (Copenhagen disc) is a masterpiece....
...thank you.....jeffrey

Monday, 21 November 2011 15:11 Host: tri59-3-82-247-30-190.fbx.proxad.net

dear Mr. Rollins
I had the pleasure to see you on stage last October in France and the honor to meet you I really had the time of my life. I wrote an article about this unforgettable moment on : [www.monicaroulettes.com]

Thank you so much for being a fabulous artist but most of all a wonderfull person
Djam' Head editor of Monica Roulettes (Wheels)

Saturday, 19 November 2011 22:14 Host: adsl-99-58-245-141.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net

Thanks for playing I've never seen you in concert but when you get close I will try because you are my favorite sax player ,I love watching you play also.

Thursday, 17 November 2011 04:46 IP: 145.253.163.210

Dear Sonny,
Your concert in Paris on 11/14 was so wonderful. You have so much beautiful imagination. I am still enchanted by your improvisation of that evening. Hope to meet you again on 11/18 and talk to you a little more ...
Ina Barbara

Wednesday, 16 November 2011 10:36 IP: 144.162.95.217

Hey Sonny,
Just when thought all was lost in the Jazz world I saw you on Tavis Smiley.Your words really inspire us to keep going another day. Really great to hear you speak. The new "Jazz Guys" really dont have your soul or humanity.
Stay healthy. Your the last of the titans.We need you.

Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:07 IP: 144.162.95.239

Do you have a recording of the 1989 Carnegie concert with Branford?I was there and still am knocked out by it.

Saturday, 12 November 2011 19:43 Host: 108-68-113-106.lightspeed.nsvltn.sbcglobal.net

Mr. Rollins. I was so upset when I didn't get to see you in Nashville. I play the alto and you are my idol. When I found out I had missed your concert, I cried. Please come and put on more concerts in the US.

Friday, 11 November 2011 11:44 IP: 95.77.251.179

Outstanding performance last night in Budapest. Thank you very much!

Where can we find the new song called "B&K" ?


Tudor

Thursday, 10 November 2011 15:19 Host: 5400E823.dsl.pool.telekom.hu

Wow!

Mr. Rollins thank you so much for this extraordinary concert in Budapest!!!

We love you!

Emma

Sunday, 6 November 2011 19:24 Host: adsl-dyn68.91-127-66.t-com.sk

Mr. Rollins, seeing you perform at the concert in Wroclaw, Poland, made me the happiest person on earth. Thank you for being yourself and keeping on with your music. You are really the Colossus, an inspiration and mentor of both music and life for us all.
I hope for you to be well and long live the Saxophone Colossus, Sonny Rollins!

Friday, 4 November 2011 08:13 Host: 200.79.139.21.dsl.dyn.telnor.net

Cuando viene a México? :3

Thursday, 3 November 2011 07:52 IP: 212.174.79.2

Your concert @Istanbul was amazing...Thank you very much!

Wednesday, 2 November 2011 04:53 IP: 145.253.163.210

Dear Sonny, wishing you all the best for you following European concerts in the East and in the Middle ! Looking forward to your music, Ina Barbara

Tuesday, 1 November 2011 23:08 IP: 78.190.135.170

Dear Sonny,
Thank you for coming to Turkey and sgharing your music, passion and love with us. You are not only a musician but an expression of humanity reflected through the great art form called Jazz. Tonight I hope to interview you if your time permits. We, your fans in Turkey wish you a happy birthday.

Saturday, 29 October 2011 16:29 IP: 93.38.213.215

Dear Sonny,
I wish to take this opportunity to thank you from the deepest of my heart for having accompanied me with your loving musical message all this way from my early youth till now, at age 50. I do recognize in you one of the prominent monuments of American Classical Music, nowadays known throughout the world thanks to you also, and through you I salute all those who have given so, so much to me musically and not only. Through the story of their lives, and the reflexions the moments of joy and/or sadness had on their recorded performances, I was also enticed to deepen my scant and superficial knowledge of American modern history to a now barely acceptable level. Thus please be the recipient of my sincere love and enthusiasm together with your long time friends Coltrane, Monk, Powell, Clifford, Roach, Davis, Evans, Prez...just to name a few. I owe you all so much and try to give it back to the people every time I have a chance to play my drums in public.
Thank you, dear Sonny,
Thank you.
Thank you
Andrea

Friday, 28 October 2011 03:23 Host: static.kpn.net

Dear Sonny,

Thank you for the beautiful concert in Eindhoven last tuesday! We enjoyed it so much! It was the second time we joined your concert. The first time was in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam last year. It felt like music in heaven! If you come back again to the Netherlands in the future: count us in. We will be there, don't want to miss it. Wish you all the best! X, Esmeralda.

Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:00 IP: 166.89.195.73

Sir,

I can't quite explain how vital your music has been to me throughout my life. While I was growing up, your music was played in our home, and my older brother Dan (Faulk) and I would study your recordings. We would each pick a part-maybe your solo, accompanying trumpet/trombone, piano chord structure, bass line, drum patterns-we literally did our best to learn from the musical bible of your recordings.
My brother Dan ended up playig saxophone (tenor and soprano)in JJ Johnson's combo and big band during JJ's latter years until he unfortunately passed. Dan was blessed with the journey of playing alongside one of his idols, JJ, and vicariously playing with another one in you. Although I'm a drummer, I strive to be as expressive as I can-I get positive comments on my unique style of drumming, which I owe in large part to my years of studying your improvisation.

Thank you, God Bless, and you are truly a legend among legends,

Matt Faulk

Wednesday, 26 October 2011 07:41 Host: D4B29C9A.static.ziggozakelijk.nl

Dear Sonny,

Your performance in Einthoven yesterday was really terrific! In particular, a new (I think) up-tempo tune was so cool. Your rhythm section ran like the wind in the grass. And you improvised on the rhythm. I wished I could have immersed myself into that tune much, much longer.
Sonny, wherever you come within three hours drive range from my home, I will come to your concert. But if possible, please come to Dusseldorf next time (and let me hear your singing voice like in 2008...)

Regards,
Hideaki

Saturday, 22 October 2011 19:26 IP: 35.14.180.204

Dear Mr. Rollins,

I am transcribing some of your solos. If you ever come back to Ann Arbor, Detroit or if you come to Lansing, I would love the opportunity to play them for you. I would also like to thank you. Your music makes me proud to be a saxophonist, and I cannot possibly show you what tremendous joy that gives me, or how incredibly grateful I am to you - but I am sure you understand.

Indelibly in the soul,
Ella