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WHEN Sonny Rollins lifts his legendary horn high and launches into Global Warming, listeners unfamiliar with his ironic sense of humor are sometimes confused.

London, Esperanza Spalding a bright hope on the double bass By Jack Massarik, None 23.11.09 More reviews by Jack Massarik Esperanza Spalding Ronnie Scott 's, W1 ***** Marcus Miller: Tutu Revisited Barbican, EC2 **** Having celebrated its glorious past with Sonny Rollins and Chick Corea , the London Jazz Festival climaxed with a glimpse of the ...

One of the most unusual stories in jazz was the decades-long relationship of Thelonious Monk with that of millionaire heiress Pannonica Rothschild, who went on to inspire a number of his songs.

The clampdown on cameraphones at the London jazz festival is stopping a vibrant and spontaneous art form from reaching a wider audience online Saxophone colossus ... Sonny Rollins.

Sonny Rollins won a standing ovation for the storm of sound he unleashed on the London Jazz festival a week ago.

Equally accomplished on drums and piano, Jim Hart seems to have settled on the vibraphone, for the time being.

Theatre London, A party made for legends at London Jazz Festival By Jack Massarik, None 16.11.09 More reviews by Jack Massarik Last pioneer of a golden age: 79-year-old jazz tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins Start with a bang, they always say, and the organisers of the 2009 London Jazz Festival certainly achieved that objective.

With a symphony-sized orchestra and a raft of singers, the Jazz Voice concert was numerically the heavyweight contender of the 2009 London Jazz festival 's opening weekend.

The legendary Sonny Rollins played to a sell out Barbican last night. At 79-years old he's outlived the other players that shaped the jazz genre, yet when we spoke he was philosophically flippant about the thought of death.

Saxophonist Lee Konitz turned 82 in October 2009 and he's still going as strong and as steady as ever.

Trombonist Wayne Wallace and his Latin Jazz Quintet have come together on Bien Bien! , representing the gamut of Latin music, from Latin jazz to cha cha cha, cu-bop, bolero, and bamba.

When Sonny Rollins plays the world's biggest concert halls, the posters outside often hail him as "the greatest living improviser". He's a whole lot more than that.

Mercury Prize-nominated pianist Zoe Rahman is performing solo concerts in three different venues as part of the Festival on the Move strand What's been happening to jazz? There's hardly a sharp-suited bopper to be seen in the line-up for the 17th London Jazz Festival, which begins on Friday.

All About Jazz is celebrating David S. Ware's birthday today! David S. Ware David S. Ware has been playing the saxophone for over 40 years.

First held in 1976, the Roma Jazz Festival has presented concerts to more than one million people since it was established and continues to go from strength to strength, attracting music lovers from across Europe.

Jazz-fusion giants unite to pay tribute to Tony Williams, one of the great jazz/fusion/rock drummers of any generation.

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and his band will perform a special benefit concert for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY.

As the Sonny Rollins concert last month demonstrated, jazz still has cultural significance.

The system was designed for flexibility and could be easily adapted into different configurations to accommodate the specific needs of each artist and to cover a variety of audience sizes One of Europe's largest festivals for jazz, soul, and pop rock music, BW-Bank jazzopen stuttgart 2009 recently concluded after 11 days of live concerts, featuring ...

PRESTIGE RECORDS RELEASES SIDE STEPS, A 5-CD BOXED SET OF JOHN COLTRANE'S PRESTIGE RECORDINGS AS A SIDEMAN TO A HOST OF JAZZ LUMINARIES The artistic prowess of saxophonist John Coltrane was so expansive and influential - even in his own short lifetime, let alone in the decades since his death - that it's difficult to quantify or differentiate his ...