May 26, 2026 11:08 AM
Sonny Rollins Passes Away at 95
Sonny Rollins, the iconic saxophonist, composer and improviser whose career stretched from the origins of bebop to 21st…
The Boston Globe will once again bring jazz and blues stars to Boston for its annual Boston Globe Jazz and Blues Festival, June 15-22.
The festival has a series of free concerts during the afternoons taking place in either Faneuil Hall Marketplace or at Copley Square with a free finale concert on Sunday, June 22 at the MDC Hatch Memorial Shell. Free concert artists will be local Boston talent, the Steven Kirby Quintet, the Joe Lovano Quartet, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Roy Hargrove’s RH Factor, Jane Monheit, Me’Shell Ndegeocello, Arturo Sandoval, and Herbie Hancock.
At night on June 16, 17 and 18, the festival will move to the FleetBoston Pavilion for ticketed events featuring Buddy Guy on Monday, Aretha Franklin on Tuesday, and Medeski Martin & Wood and The John Scofield Band on Wednesday.
For a full schedule, go to the festival’s web site.
Onstage, Rollins would move about restlessly, thrusting his tenor sax in the air as he blew.
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