Performance

The Life of Sonny Rollins

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Now playing at The Jazz Gallery, *The Life of Sonny Rollins* frames its subject through the working life of New York jazz, where Rollins’s sound was forged in clubs, rehearsal rooms, and public space. Featured performers include Jaleel Shaw alongside archival reference points such as John Coltrane and Rollins, tracing a lineage of tenor playing that helped define the city’s postwar identity. The program treats jazz as lived history rather than nostalgia. Its clearest insight is that Rollins’s legacy is inseparable from the discipline of reinvention.