Rezension von „Rollins in Holland“ (und „Mingus @ Bremen“) von Richard Brody im New Yorker:
If every great jazz musician has a pull toward the other arts, Rollins works as a storyteller—he’s a great narrative musician whose solos build not only musical ideas but drama. His emphasis on melodic and thematic improvisation, along with harmonic exploration, gives him more musical material to work with than other soloists give themselves, and his inclination to see long musical story arcs adds yet another dimension to his art—and makes long solos inevitable. For music, time is space, and Rollins is a virtual landscape artist, one who sees panoramically and travels extensively through the musical realm of his time and through his own imaginative dimensions. Working with only a bassist and a drummer, Rollins kept most of the solo space for himself, and, in concert, he often played numbers that ran fifteen minutes or more—and such heroic performances are the heart and highlights of “Rollins in Holland,” where he’s accompanied by the Dutch musicians Ruud Jacobs, on bass, and Han Bennink, on drums.
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