Sonny in Saskatoon

[danasgoodstuff]

Fairly typical Sonny, energetic, good/sometimes great, s'tooners ate it up.

[danasgoodstuff]

Sonny's website talks about the Vancouver gig just previous to this, but not S'toon. The set list was somewhat different, Sonny did "In a Sentimental Mood" but no "Strode Rode" or encore in S'toon.

[Hot Ptah]

I have heard from the guy who produces a national jazz concert series for a local theater that Sonny's price for a concert outside New York is now something like $40,000, and that he just takes a few of them a year. He said that he wants to book Sonny for his subscription series but the price is too high.

So you may have been very fortunate to be able to see him at all!

[Hardbopjazz]

Touring is too much for him. He is nearly 79. 40,000 divided by 5 musicians, road manager and others is about 8 to 10k for Sonny. 10 X 22 shows = 220k. Not bad pay for a year.

How long did he play for at the Saskatchewan concert? He has been doing 2 hours.

[danasgoodstuff]

little shy of 2 hours, an encore would've put it there. pretty high energy, people in S'toon were pretty much wowed. Bobby Broom and the drummer went to the after hours jam at the new Bassment (Saskatoon Jazz Society venue).