Preview - Sonny Rollins to play at next autumn’s London Jazz Festival, Barbican Centre on November 16
Published: 5 April, 2012
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
He’d worked with Miles Davis and Bud Powell before he turned 20.
And, with Coleman Hawkins as his idol and Thelonious Monk as his mentor, Theodore Walter Rollins went on to establish himself as one of the finest tenor saxophone players of all time.
A near-legendary performance at the 2010 London Jazz Festival proved that Sonny Rollins still plays with the imagination and vitality that helped turn jazz on its head in the 1950s and 1960s
The 82-year-old jazz legend is returning to play at next autumn’s London Jazz Festival on Friday November 16 at the Barbican.
Tickets sold like hot cakes for his 2010 and there’s every reason to believe they’ll be just as quick to go this time.
• Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2, 020 7638 8891, www.barbican.org.uk