Celebrating Sonny: A Tribute to Sonny Rollins featuring the Eric Alexander Quintet with special guest Nicholas Payton
About This Event
The Eric Alexander Quintet, with special guest trumpeter Nicholas Payton, presents a tribute to tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club. Payton, a New Orleans–raised, Grammy-winning musician and public writer whose playing favors direct melodic argument and a focus on time and tone, brings a mix of straight-ahead jazz and broader American song forms that speaks to Rollins’s influence.
About the Artists
Sonny Rollins
Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.
Nicholas Payton
Nicholas Payton is a New Orleans–raised trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist whose work moves between straight-ahead jazz and broader American song forms. A Grammy Award winner, he is also known as a public writer, using essays and commentary to address music alongside race, politics, and everyday life.