Better Do It Now before You Die Later: Sonny Simmons with Marc Chaloin wilco Refiguring American Music

Refiguring American Music

Kim Gordon

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Better Do It Now before You Die Later: Sonny Simmons with Marc Chaloin wilco Refiguring American MusicBy Sonny Simmons with Marc Chaloin 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 (19332021) was nearly forgotten by the '80s, which found him broke, heavily dependent on