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Sonny Simmons: The Traveller

Read "The Traveller" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 12, 2005

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 ...

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Sonny Simmons: Jewels

Read "Jewels" reviewed by Robert R. Calder

by Robert R. Calder
March 23, 2005

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 ...

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Sonny Simmons: Jewels

Read "Jewels" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz

by Javier AQ Ortiz
February 18, 2005

Inspired by the works of Charlie Parker, Vincent Van Gogh, Sigurd Rasher, and Eric Dolphy, saxophonist Sonny Simmons recorded Jewels at a California home in 1991. Simmons' best-known composition, “Music Matador,"? initiates the recording. It was originally featured on an Eric Dolphy recording, and in a recent AAJ interview Simmons affirms that it is ...

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Sonny Simmons: Jewels

Read "Jewels" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen
February 4, 2005

Solo saxophone recordings (and, for that matter, solo recordings in general) offer more than just a glimpse into the process of self-composing, of testing material and approaches to sound as well as getting into the nature of the instrument. Though it lacks the sparring that begets improvisation (for that reason, Derek Bailey prefers to call it ...

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Jewels

By Sonny Simmons

Label: Boxholder Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Music Matador; Cosmic Funk; Caribbean Nights; Other Worlds; Reverend Church.

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Cosmosamatics Three

By Sonny Simmons

Label: Boxholder Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Futura; Tonal Magnitudes; Coolburn; Bring on the Funk; 12 Seasons of Love; Avant Garde Destruct; 'Round Midnight; Requiem for Anne Frank

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The Future Is Ancient

By Sonny Simmons

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 2004

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Sonny Simmons: Jewels

by Mark Corroto
December 19, 2004

Note to self (that's you): find the long out-of-print CD Ancient Ritual (Qwest, 1992) by the Sonny Simmons trio. That disc marked his first great comeback, this disc his second. Well, sort of. Not that Sonny Simmons went anywhere. It is just that gaps in his recording career wipe him from our collective radar. ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Re: Sonny Simmons

by AAJ Staff
September 5, 2004

For too long I have read Sonny Simmons' disingenuous remarks (see interview ) about the labels that go to bat for him and offer an uncompromised canvas for his artistry. In July, he refers to his current labels as “little outhouse labels with no distribution in Europe." I am familiar with those labels (i.e. since 2002: ...

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Sonny Simmons

by Clifford Allen
July 24, 2004

Alto saxophonist Sonny Simmons was born on Sicily Island, Louisiana. At a young age, he moved to Oakland, California with his family, bringing the budding musician into contact with touring musicians like Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker as well as local modernists. By the early '60s, Sonny had moved to LA to record and work with ...