Better Do It Now Before You Die Later Sonny Simmons with Marc Chaloin
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Verkaufsrang
16377
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
05.05.2026
Verlag
Blank Forms EditionsSeitenzahl
588
Maße (L/B/H)
24,2/16,2/4,6 cm
Gewicht
1152 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-953691-99-6
Fiery, funny, inviting and digressive, Sonny Simmons' memoir is a long overdue celebration of the famed New York free jazz pioneer
Though his years in the New York free-jazz scene of the sixties cemented his reputation as "one of the most forceful and convincing composers and soloists in his field," saxophonist Sonny Simmons (1933-2021) was nearly forgotten by the '80s, which found him broke, heavily dependent on drugs and alcohol, and separated from his wife and kids. "I played on the streets from 1980 to 1994, 365 days a year," Simmons tells jazz historian and biographer Marc Chaloin. "I would go to North Beach, and I'd sleep in the park. The word got around town that Sonny is a junkie, really strung out."
The resurrection of Simmons' career--upon the release of his critically acclaimed Ancient Ritual (Qwest Records) in 1994--has become a modern legend of the genre. In the last two decades of his musical career, Simmons broke through to a new echelon of recognition, joining the pantheon of great innovators and masters of the music. But to this day he remains an undersung figure. Here, in the first ever book dedicated to his life, Simmons recounts his childhood in the backwoods of Louisiana, his adolescence in the burgeoning Bay Area jazz scene and his star-studded life in New York playing alongside the greats.
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