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Sonny Rollins is still blowing strong

By Siddhartha Mitter
Globe Correspondent / April 17, 2010

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The last time Sonny Rollins performed in this region, he closed out the 2008 Newport Jazz Festival with a potent, expansive set, his tenor sax broadcasting relentless improvised patterns into the salty breeze as the sun went down over Fort Adams. The impression was forceful and nearly elegiac, the muscular music of the Saxophone Colossus — as he’s been affectionately ... (Full article: 833 words)

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