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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…
Vocalist Catherine Russell is set to host “Family Concert: Legacies Of Excellence” on Feb. 20 as part of Jazz At Lincoln Center’s 2021 Spring virtual concert season.
(Photo: Courtesy Jazz At Lincoln Center)Jazz At Lincoln Center, after provisionally closing its performance spaces in 2020 because of the pandemic, has planned a series of streaming events running through June.
Beginning in late February, the nonprofit organization is looking to feature sets that examine history and explore the work of contemporary players. Among the four planned concerts is “Freedom, Justice And Hope,” a May 21 event when bassist Endea Owens and trumpeter Josh Evans are set to premiere new music alongside Wynton Marsalis and The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra. The evening also will feature readings selected by Marsalis and activist Bryan Stevenson.
Information about other shows in the series is below.
Individual tickets per concert are $20; subscribers pay $15; and members pay up to $15. DB
Onstage, Rollins would move about restlessly, thrusting his tenor sax in the air as he blew.
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