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Sonny Rollins Passes Away at 95
Sonny Rollins, the iconic saxophonist, composer and improviser whose career stretched from the origins of bebop to 21st…
For the fourth straight year, Basin Street Records is throwing “A Party for Patti” to coincide with the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. On April 21 at the Howlin’ Wolf, the party will help to celebrate the memory Basin Street cofounder Patti Samuels, the late wife of Basin Street owner Mark Samuels.
This year, the party features music from Los Hombres Calientes: Irvin Mayfield & Bill Summers, Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen, plus special guests.
General admission tickets are as low as $17.50. Patron tickets at $80 include early admission, access to upstairs balcony, and catering by New Orleans restaurant Jacques-Imo’s. A significant portion of the gross proceeds will benefit Project Prodigy of the Young Leadership Council.
Tickets are available now at www.howlin-wolf.com.
Onstage, Rollins would move about restlessly, thrusting his tenor sax in the air as he blew.
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