Sonny Rollins

Merely by setting foot on stage bearing a tenor saxophone and scattering a few clues to his signature calypso, St Thomas, Sonny Rollins does enough to make a London jazz festival crowd feel privileged to be in the same room.

Someone who works as a music critic spends many nights a week out listening to music of all styles in stadiums theatres pubs bars etc.

He replied “I hope we give you a good show that night remember jazz is a music that is not fixed it is always evolving always different.

Reality demands that the Olympian saxophone improviser Sonny Rollins must slow down one day, and every time he appears, his fans look anxiously for signs.

Rollins looked more like a shaman than a legendary jazz tenor as he hobbled on to begin a concert celebrating his 80th birthday. With his stiff, arthritic gait, it seemed seven decades of performing jazz had taken a toll. But that perception only prevailed until he put the sax to his mouth. When he blew, the

With his dark shades on‚ gold sax in hand like it's an extension of his body‚ and his afro and beard perfectly matched with his bright white coat‚ you couldn't help but feel that the coolest man on the planet just arrived to play some music.

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