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Sonny Simmons: Jewels
by Javier AQ Ortiz
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 ...
Sonny Simmons: Jewels
by Clifford Allen
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 ...
Jewels
Label: Boxholder Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Music Matador; Cosmic Funk; Caribbean Nights; Other Worlds; Reverend Church.
Cosmosamatics Three
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
Sonny Simmons: Jewels
by Mark Corroto
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. ...
Re: Sonny Simmons
by AAJ Staff
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: ...
Sonny Simmons
by Clifford Allen
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 ...
Sonny Simmons/Michael Marcus/Jay Rosen: Cosmosamatics Three
by John Kelman
Music can be remarkably deceptive. By careful placement of instruments, a small ensemble can sound much larger; notes can be implied where none are found. And while space is clearly a fundamental with Sonny Simmons, Michael Marcus and Jay Rosen’s experimental group, Cosmosamatics, what is most conspicuous is how two saxophones and percussion create a compelling ...
Burning Spirits
Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Burning Spirits No. 1 (Simmons) - 11:34
2. New Newk (Simmons) - 11:42
3. Healing Rays (Simmons) - 15:55
4. Burning Spirits No. 2 (Simmons) - 13:47
5. Things and Beings (Simmons) - 9:27
6. E=MC2 (Simmons) - 16:53
