Rare Jazz Live in Europe: Sonny in Paris 1965

On 1965, november 4, during his european tour, Sonny Rollins played in Paris at Salle de la Mutualité during the Paris Jazz Festival, with the french bassist Gilbert Rovere, and Art Taylor, at that time living in Europe, at drums.

The reviews were enthusiastic, the french critic Daniel Berger wrote:
Sonny Rollins could play alone for hours without make loose interest. His sounding show is amazing and enjoys his listeners, crossing improvisations that reach end at remarkable speed and standards that breaks with incredible moments for rapidity and invention. His strength and his warmth are as he was playng for the last time.

That concert was unissued for about twenty years and the following album is very rare and never reissued.
























































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The following video was taken in Copenhagen during the same european tour with different partners

Jazz in Europe: Sonny Rollins in Juan-les-Pins (France) 2005

On 2005 july 22 the great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, at that time 75 years old, with his group was present at one of the most interesting jazz festivals on the French Cote d'Azur, the Jazz à Juan in Juan-les-Pins.

The following video shows the final set of the concert: a well known composition of Sonny Rollins Tenor Madness.

The personnel was:
Sonny Rollins (t. sax)
Clifton Anderson (tbn)
Bobby Broom (g)
Bob Cranshaw (bjo)
Steve Jordan (drm)
Kimati Dinizulu (perc)

During the concert were played:

Global Warming (Rollins)
Someday I’ll Find You (Coward)
Salvador (Rollins)
Don’t Stop the Carnival (Rollins)
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (Sherwin/Strachey/Maschwitz)
Tenor Madness (Rollins) .

Here you can listen to a private unissued recording of the whole concert of very good quality.