Sonny Rollins at London Jazz Festival at Royal Albert Hall

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Playing still with the imagination and vitality that helped turn jazz on its head in the 1950s and 1960s, Sonny Rollins live is a not-to-be-missed experience. He returns to the Festival for our 21st birthday to play the Royal Albert Hall for the first time in what is bound to be a very special occasion, marking a relationship with London that stretches back to extended residencies at Ronnie Scotts in the 60s that have become the stuff of legends. He’d worked with Miles Davis and Bud Powell before he turned 20, and with Coleman Hawkins as his idol and Thelonious Monk as his mentor, Theodore Walter Rollins went on to establish himself as one of the finest tenor saxophone players of all time.