Better Do It Now before You Die Later: Sonny Simmons with Marc Chaloin classical —Long-Listed for the Penderyn Music

—Long-Listed for the Penderyn Music Book Prize

Hammer of the Gods is considered the ultimate word on Led Zeppelin

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

giving the impression that Conrad followed paths opened up for him in used book shops and conversations

Brooks illustrates Buckley's passion for life and hunger for musical knowledge

Better Do It Now before You Die Later: Sonny Simmons with Marc Chaloin classical —Long-Listed for the Penderyn 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