Sonny Simmons

American jazz alto saxophonist (also tenor saxophone, heckelphone, oboe and English horn), born August 4, 1933 in Sicily Island, LA; died April 6, 2021.
Moved with family to Oakland, California, in the early 1940s. IN 1954 he met [a=Prince Lasha], with whom he recorded in the 1960s. Later in groups with his wife [a=Barbara Donald]. Retired from music in the early 1970s, making a come back c. 1990.