Sonny Rollins

possibilité de faire venir des orchestres entiers. Ils inaugurent à partir de mars 1958 une série de concerts hebdomadaires à l’Olympia qui donnent au public parisien l’occasion d’apprécier de grands jazzmen tels que Max Roach, Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, les Jazz Messengers, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane ou Dizzy Gillespie. Au total, Ténot et Filipacchi organisent 78 concerts entre 1958 et 1963, soit un rythme quasi hebdomadaire, La popularisation du jazz en France (1948-1960)

plays a desperado named Charlie Gant; Lee J. Cobb plays a US marshall; Gregory Peck plays the gambler Clee Van Valen; a wagonmaster is played by Robert Preston; Thelma Ritter plays a friend; John Wayne plays General Sherman; George Peppard plays Zeb Rollins and his wife is played by Carolyn Jones; Richard Widmark plays Mike King, one of the railroad builders. Different social groups: mountain men, plainsmen, adventurers, settlers, river pirates, desperados, soldiers, gamblers, entertainers, builders