Sonny Simmons
Sign in to saveAmerican saxophonist (1933-2021)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1933-08-04
- Active to
- 2021-04-06
free jazzjazz
Discography
- The Cry!1963
- It Is Revealed1963
- Jazz Tempo, Latin Accents!1965
- Staying on the Watch1966
- Firebirds1968
- Music From the Spheres1968
- Manhattan Egos1969
- Rumasuma1970
- Burning Spirits1971
- Backwoods Suite1990
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6,739
- Total plays
- 41,274
Tags
free jazzjazzAvant-Garde JazzsaxophoneAvant-Garde
Altoist Sonny Simmons made a strong impression in the 1960s as one of the most promising avant-garde players. He grew up in Oakland, CA, started playing English horn, and then at 16 took up the alto. Stints with Lowell Fulsom and Amos Milburn and some time spent playing bebop preceded Simmons finding his own sound in free jazz. In 1961, he spent some time with Charles Mingus and then, in 1962, he formed a group with flutist Prince Lasha. After they recorded The Cry <a href="https://www.last.fm/m
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,186x
- The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system
· 2011 · cited 20,708x
- The global distribution and burden of dengue
· 2013 · cited 8,219x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,795x
- The ERA‐40 re‐analysis
· 2005 · cited 6,035x
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