Bright Moments Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 (edited) where bright moments is going tomorrow night! Edited April 19, 2009 by Bright Moments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 Cool. I'm seeing Rollins on May 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 I'm seeing him April 28. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted April 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 he is really getting around!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free For All Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 OK, Evan- report please....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted April 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 he was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he played NONSTOP for over 2 hours and never sat down!! his band: Bobby Broom - guitar Bob Crenshaw - electric Bass Clifton Anderson - Trombone Coleman Watkins - Drums (this kid was AWESOME - probably one of the top 5 drummers on the scene today!) a percussionist who i didn't recognize (sorry) I am horrible with names but Sonny played a few ballads, a calypso number (not St. Thomas) and the rest great STRAIGHT AHEAD JAZZ!! Oh and he started off with a bit of circular breathing that was INCREDIBLE!! I know MartyJazz was there as well so I hope he fills in the rest of the details! All in all - AN INCREDIBLE JAZZ EVENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted April 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Sonny's Schedule (from his website): 2009 Apr 15 Walton Arts Center - Baum Walker Hall, Fayetteville, AR Apr 18 Adrienne Arsht Center for the Arts, Miami, Fl Apr 27 University of California - Santa Barbara - Campbell Hall, Santa Barbara, CA Apr 30 Orange County Performing Arts Center Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, CA May 3 University of Texas at Austin Performing Arts Center - Bass Concert Hall, Austin,TX June 26 TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival, Toronto, Canada June 29 Orpheum Theatre - Vancouver. B.C. July 2 Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival - Tcu Place Saskatoon, Canada July 17 Stockholm Jazz Festival, Stockholm, Sweden July 25 Nice Jazz Festival - Nice, France July 31 Jazz in Marsiac - Marciac, France Sept 19 Blanche Touhill PC - St. Louis, MO Sept 22 University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, NC Sept 25 Kimmel Center - Philadelphia, PA Oct 29 Olympia Theatre, Paris, France Nov 2 Teatro Manzoni, Milan, Italy Nov 5 Koncertna Dvorana Vatroslav Lisinski, Zagreb, Croatia Nov 8 Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria Nov 11 Parco Della Musica, Sala S. Cecilia, Roma, Italy Dec 2 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted April 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 here is someone else's review: someone else's review Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted April 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 FWIW - i can't fing anything, anywhere about this drummer - Coleman Watkins. :blush2: He was really terrific - so anybody who knows anything about him - please report! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Oooops. I guess I'm seeing him on the 27th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyJazz Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 he was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he played NONSTOP for over 2 hours and never sat down!! his band: Bobby Broom - guitar Bob Crenshaw - electric Bass Clifton Anderson - Trombone Coleman Watkins - Drums (this kid was AWESOME - probably one of the top 5 drummers on the scene today!) a percussionist who i didn't recognize (sorry) I am horrible with names but Sonny played a few ballads, a calypso number (not St. Thomas) and the rest great STRAIGHT AHEAD JAZZ!! Oh and he started off with a bit of circular breathing that was INCREDIBLE!! I know MartyJazz was there as well so I hope he fills in the rest of the details! All in all - AN INCREDIBLE JAZZ EVENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The standards he performed included "In A Sentimental Mood", a rocking "They Say It's Wonderful" (my favorite performance of the night), and an extended (due to a lengthy bit of trading of fours with the drummer) version of "My One and Only Love". The calypso of course was the always performed at every Sonny concert in the past two decades, "Don't Stop the Carnival". I attended the concert with the premier private Rollins collector, Carl Smith, who knew the titles of the more "recent" material performed, which I now cannot recall. Got to meet the very gracious Rollins backstage afterwards, a real treat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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