Sonny Rollins/The Bad Plus

Various venues, LondonReality demands that the Olympian saxophone improviser Sonny Rollins must slow down one day, and every time he appears, his fans look anxiously for signs. But at the Barbican on the London jazz festival's closing weekend, there were none. As if heartened by arrival at his 80th birthday, Rollins swept imperiously through a two-hour single set without a blink.As ever, the tunes were standard Rollins fare – calypsos like Global Warming and a finale of Don't Stop The Carnival...

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