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…
Pianist Omar Sosa has announced his tour of Europe and the United States for late winter and early spring.
Dates for the tour are as follows:
Feb. 21: Croydon Clock Tower, London (Trio with Martha Galarraga & Gustavo Ovalles)
Feb. 27: Espace Senghor, Brussels (Trio)
March 6 & 7: Sala Clamores, Madrid (Trio)
March 11: Salle Nougaro, Toulouse, France (Quintet with Galarraga, Ovalles, El Houssaine Kili & MC Breis)
March 14: Theatre Municipal, Fontenay Le Comte, France (Quintet)
March 18 & 19: L’Ermitage, Paris (Omar Sosa & the New VJ Ensemble with Ovalles, and from London, VJs Marc Silver & Nick Hillel)
March 22: L’Art-Chipel, Basse Terre, Guadaloupe (Quintet)
March 29: Les Swing de Mars, Dreux, France (Quintet)
April 10: Jazz a Commercy, Commercy, France (Trio)
April 18 & 19: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (Omar Sosa & the New VJ Ensemble with Ovalles, VJs Silver & Hillel, plus special guests Yassir Chadly, Stephen Kent & Brutha Los)
April 20: Theater on High Street, Los Angeles (Trio)
April 21 & 22: Dakota Bar & Grill, St. Paul, Minn., (Quintet with Martha Galarraga, Gustavo Ovalles, Geoff Brennan & Eric Crystal)
April 23: Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Quintet)
April 24: Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass. (Trio)
April 25: Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn. (Trio)
April 26: Joe’s Pub, New York City (Trio)
May 3: Calvin Simmons Theater, Oakland, Calif. (Special collaboration with Dimensions Dance Theater)
For show times and ticket prices, check out the web site www.melodia.com.
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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