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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…
ASCAP will present a showcase series called “Month of Mondays” at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center in Manhattan.
From Monday, Nov. 28, through Dec. 26, Jazz at Lincoln Center will showcase five composers from winners of the annual ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards. The featured composers/performers will include, in this order: Manuel Valera; Sherisse Rogers; Jason Goldman; David Guidi and Maurice Brown. The performers will be showcased in two sets—once at 7:30 p.m. followed by a final performance at 9:30 p.m.
“The Month of Mondays” showcases will bring talented jazz creators nurtured by the ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards program to the attention of the public,” said ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman. “We are proud to collaborate with Wynton Marsalis and his team at Jazz at Lincoln Center to provide these young professionals a major jazz venue to showcase their work.”
Onstage, Rollins would move about restlessly, thrusting his tenor sax in the air as he blew.
May 26, 2026 11:08 AM
Sonny Rollins, the iconic saxophonist, composer and improviser whose career stretched from the origins of bebop to 21st…
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