Sonny Rollins/Egberto Gismonti – review

Barbican/Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonMerely by setting foot on stage bearing a tenor saxophone and scattering a few clues to his signature calypso, St Thomas, Sonny Rollins does enough to make a London jazz festival crowd feel privileged to be in the same room. The 82-year-old Rollins – hailed in the 1950s as the new Charlie Parker; virtuoso partner to Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Miles Davis – is the man who has so successfully elevated in-the-moment improvisation that his actual rep...

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