September and October will see the release of two new DVDs starring the tenor saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins. As with everything else in this mighty musician’s career, timing is everything, and these particular releases indicate something of a disconnect from what we’ve come to expect. Summer is the time you want to see and hear Mr. Rollins, which is why he usually gives his annual concerts in New York in the dog days of August. Thus, even though the two DVDs (both of which feature him playing live in Europe) are arriving in early fall, the best time to experience Mr. Rollins in person is Wednesday, when he plays Central Park’s Summer-Stage. Over the last 30 years, Mr. Rollins has fine-tuned his music to the point where it’s an essential summer experience. He has perfected an instrumental and ensemble sound that’s so explosively joyful and euphoric that putting a roof over it would seem like an unnecessary step designed only to curtail its rapture. Saying that Sonny Rollins plays “outside” music doesn’t mean that it’s avant-garde (though he has played that, too); it means literally outdoors, honoring a tradition of jazz that goes back to the genre’s beginnings. Jazz didn’t… Read full this story
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