Sonny Simmons
Issue 501
November 2025
Tracks
Wire playlist: Sonny Simmons
October 2025
Pierre Crépon selects tracks from the catalogue of US saxophonist Sonny Simmons, with input from Marc Chaloin, co-author of new autobiography Better Do It Now Before You Die Later
Essay
Sonny Simmons and the Backwoods
April 2021
Jazz historian and biographer Marc Chaloin pays tribute to the US saxophonist, who died on 6 April 2021 at the age of 87
