Better Do It Now before You Die Later: Sonny Simmons with Marc Chaloin classical of recklessness and redemption—a story

of recklessness and redemption—a story that could only have come out of the world of rock

—Long-Listed for the Penderyn Music Book Prize

their contemporaries

" ―San Francisco Chronicle

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Better Do It Now before You Die Later: Sonny Simmons with Marc Chaloin classical of recklessness and redemption—a storyBy 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