When the Rolling Stones added a little jazz
The song “Waiting on a friend” of the Rolling Stones It took some time to find his way but then, in the end, he managed to be engraved on the album of the legendary English band “Tattoo You” (Read the review here) of 1981.
The history began a few years earlier, i
Rolling Stones
in fact they engraved the original basis of
“Waiting on a friend”
In 1972 in Kingston, Jamaica, during the album registration sessions
“Goats Head Soup”
(
Read the review here
). On the floor it was sitting
Nicky Hopkins
While
Mick Taylor
It was the solo guitar. When about ten years was resumed later
Mick Jagger
He had the great idea of inviting us to play the myth of the jazz saxophone
Sonny Rollins
to add an solo. Everything is good what ends well and
“Waiting on a friend”,
In the United States, he reached position 13 position in the ranking of individuals.
Mick Jagger
He admitted that he had been a little nervous to the idea of working with Rollins, whom he had known through a friend common at the Bottom Line in New York at the beginning of 1981. The Stones drummer
Charlie Watts
great lover of jazz music, wondered doubtful if Rollins would ever accept the invitation. “This boy is a saxophone giant,” says Jagger in Bill Janovitz ‘Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the story of the Rolling Stones’. “Charlie said, ‘he will never want to play in a rolling stones album!’. I replied, ‘Yes, he will want to do it.’ He did it, and it was wonderful. ”
He did it, but only after he was convinced by his wife, as Rollins himself told at the New York Times in 2020. “I said: ‘Cabbage, the Rolling Stones. I don’t want to make any disc with the Rolling Stones’ I had considered them not at the level of jazz. But my wife said, ‘no, no, you have to do it.’ So I said, ‘ok, let’s see if I can understand what they are doing; we see if I can make it sound as possible.
“Slave”
And
“Neighbours”
.
Years later,
Sonny Rollins
He told the Times that he was in a supermarket in Hudson, in New York state, when his ears dried. “I heard this song and thought, ‘Who is that guy?’ His way of playing hit a rope inside me. It was my execution in one of those Rolling Stones records. ”
