CELBRATING SONNY: MIKE ALLEN QUARTET

September 7 is the birthday of Jazz Legend tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins—Rollins has played music for over 70 years—beginning as a teenager with icons like JJ Johnson and Bud Powell. In the 1950s, he was a sideman for Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis and then joined the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet. He also teamed up with John Coltrane for the recording Tenor Madness. Let’s face it: if I were to list every musician Sonny Rollins has played with, it would be a very long who’s who in jazz. Because of his sheer talent and absolute dedication to the music itself—letting it takes him wherever it leads– he’s been the jazzmen’s jazz player and acknowledged as its greatest living improviser. Join the Mike Allen Quartet as they pay tribute to Sonny’s “Rollins Plays For Bird” album