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Sonny Simmons: Live at the Cheshire Cat
by Jeff Stockton
In 1980, legendary altoist Sonny Simmons was at his lowest point. Describing himself as “shipwrecked when the gigs dried up and the money ran out, Simmons followed his wife and frequent collaborator, trumpeter Barbara Donald, from San Francisco to Olympia, Washington, with the hope that the change of scene would revitalize their tenuous marriage and put ...
The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings; The Traveller
by Jeff Stockton
Sonny Simmons The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings ESP-Disk 2005 Clifford Allen's informative and revealing interview with Sonny Simmons, included with ESP's two-disc reissue of Simmons' first efforts as a leader (Staying on the Watch and Music From the Spheres) clears up much of what happened to the master alto ...
Jewels
Label: Boxholder Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Music Matador; Cosmic Funk; Caribbean Nights; Other Worlds; Reverend Church
The Traveller
Label: Jazzaway
Released: 2005
Track listing: Humphrey; Armada; Spheres; Duet; Brainstorm; Sunset.
Sonny Simmons: The Traveller
by Rex Butters
Even at 72, the great Sonny Simmons still comes up with the unexpected. On The Traveller, the veteran musician nestles into beautiful compositions and arrangements by Vidar Johansen with a group augmented by an elite string quartet from the Oslo Philharmonic. Johansen surrounds Simmons in strong, open charts that create taut frameworks for improvisational weaving. The ...
Sonny Simmons: The Traveller
by Mark Corroto
Every time a new Sonny Simmons record is released, reviewers encourage listeners to wake up to this shadowy figure. Simmons has always been a guy hovering behind the glory. In the '60s he seemed a footnote to Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy, and listeners bought Ayler on ESP before Simmons. His rediscovery in the late '80s ...
Sonny Simmons: Jewels
by Robert R. Calder
Sonny Simmons arrived as a performer over forty years ago. He's not the last man to tell you he hasn't had his due, following bad times on the old “young man with a horn" stereotype. As with Mark Twain, “reports of his death were... exaggerated," but they did Simmons harm. The good news of his being ...
