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"Opening Night Concert"

Sonny Rollins

Friday, October 20 • 8pm

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    • “[Rollins] seems immense, summoning the entire history of jazz, capable of blowing a hole through a wall” —The New Yorker

    One of the true immortals of 20th-century jazz, the legendary “Saxophone Colossus,” Sonny Rollins, continues to amaze fans and critics alike in jazz’s second century. In the words of critic Gary Giddins: “Rollins looms as an invincible presence after fifty years: one of the most cunning, surprising, and original of jazz visionaries and one of the very few musicians whose (infrequent) concert appearances and recordings generate intense expectations and heated postmortems.” Rollins returns to the Festival on the heels of his first studio CD in five years, Sonny, Please, due out June 30. Read Program Notes

    Personnel:
    • Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone
    • Clifton Anderson, trombone
    • Bobby Broom, guitar
    • Bob Cranshaw, bass
    • Kimati Dinizulu, percussion
    • Victor Lewis, drum
    inside jazz Inside Jazz Pre-Concert Talk
    “Sonny Rollins, DownBeat Musician of the Year”
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