- Sat, Nov 14, 8:00pm
- Attucks Theatre
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Sat, Nov 14, 8:00pm
Sam Newsome, saxophone with John Toomey Trio
Saxophonist Sam Newsome first came to prominence in the early 1990s as a member of the great Terence Blanchard Quintet. In 1996, he switched from tenor to soprano sax in hopes of finding a more distinctive artistic voice. “The sound of the soprano allowed me to play with the freedom of not having to carry on my shoulders, decades of the great tenor saxophone legacy,” Newsome says. “I felt that the sound that I was producing was my own. That was very liberating.” He has gone on to become one of the premiere soprano players in jazz and last year released his fifth album, The Straight Horn of Africa: A Path to Liberation. Upon its release, Ed Enright of DownBeat Magazine called it “a modern masterpiece.”
Co-presented with Virginia Arts Festival