Kirk Hamilton

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I make music and podcasts. Host of Strong Songs 🎶 and Triple Click 👾 strongsongspodcast.com tripleclickpodcast.com KirksNotes.com Profile pic: Alicia J. Rose

Rollins’s solo is entirely in stop-time, meaning that the rhythm section plays only downbeat hits every other bar while Rollins blows through the spaces in between. Over the course of a handful of breakneck choruses, he lets fly a rhythmically wild, almost comically inspired cavalcade of ideas that leaves no inch of the saxophone unexplored. In another world, Stitt might once again have followed Rollins with a flashier solo, successfully matching if not outshining his bandmate. And he gives it his best shot, filling several choruses with his usual impressive machine-gun swing. But to my ear, there’s no touching Rollins. The song had been his from the moment he began to improvise. I sometimes imagine what it must have been like in the studio that day, listening to Rollins blow and knowing that you were going to have to follow that. Then again, maybe I know exactly how that feels. It’s what I and countless other musicians have been doing for years: trying to figure out how to follow Sonny Rollins.
The cover of Ashley Kahn's 2000 book "Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece"
A pair of people on stage at the Reeperbahn Festival present an award while Kirk's acceptance speech is projected on the screen behind them
A voting bracket with a bunch of legendary musicians and bands, which has been winnowed down to Queen, Talking Heads, Prince, Paul Simon, The Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Electric Light Orchestra, and Joni Mitchell.
A Logic session with a looooot if audio regions (probably too many)
A Logic recording session with a lot of different tracks and colorful audio blocks
four video game characters have a nice party with a cake
From “Nite Crawler,” 1978 - lick at 2:48