MCG Jazz celebrates one of the towering voices in jazz history: Sonny Rollins. Marty Ashby’s special guest is saxophonist Erik Lawrence, who joins for a personal and musical tribute to Rollins’ massive sound, fearless imagination, and lifelong pursuit of discovery on the tenor saxophone.
Few artists have balanced raw power, humor, intellect, and spontaneity like Sonny Rollins. His music draws from bebop, hard bop, calypso, standards, show tunes, and deep rhythmic invention, but the result is always unmistakably Sonny. We’ll hear him alongside Miles Davis on “Serpent’s Tooth,” stretching out on “Old Devil Moon” from the legendary Live at the Village Vanguard recordings, and bringing his singular voice to selections from Saxophone Colossus, The Complete RCA Victor Recordings, and Sonny Rollins’ Next Album.
MCG Jazz Spotlight - Friday and Sunday at 6, Saturday at 1pm.
