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..All About Jazz: So you were born in Louisiana, right?Sonny Simmons: Yeah, that's right. Let me tell you the story from the beginning. My parents and all my other relatives lived on this little backwoods island called Sicily Island, Louisiana. Most of them were musicians; I grew up in the church with my papa, and he was a drummer and a vocalist. My mother was a vocalist in the women's choir. I was born August 4, 1933 and when I was a little boy in church with my papa, he bought me an old squeeze-box accordion, and I used to play that in church - it was as old as the hills. It was a squeeze-box so you just had to pull it back and forth like a loony-tune thing. No keys, nothin'. I had to feel the pressure on a certain distance of pulling and pushing. I learned how to play it in church with different religious hymns at that time; I think I was about six. I was born with music, and I had a natural born talent, so to speak. We lived on this island; my parents built a big farm and we were wealthy, but it was really the white man's farm. We had everything on that farm, and at that time everything was organic - no pesticides, so I grew up in a natural, organic environment with everything on the island and we didn't have to go to any stores to buy anything....http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=2178
<snip>Time Out album is always a favorite.
I love "Three to get ready" on that.
Jim: Thanks for welcome. Dear Neobop,In the 80 years I had the LP ''Life Style''(which seems a very surupy, romantic, sweetie aldum) where Klemmer plays alto sax.According AllMusic Klemmer plays tenor, alto, soprano, flute, keyboards, kalimba, vocals.http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-klemmer-p6901
Dear Fullrangeman,Right you are. It also said on that link that Trane was his greatest influence. I hadn't thought of that before. It makes sense. I used to have one with a white cover on LP called Blowing Gold. He played electric tenor. http://www.amazon.com/Blowing-Gold-John-Klemmer/dp/B00007DXJL/ref=sr_1_15?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1307650650&sr=1-15neo
Neobop,A pity you no longer have this LP, the CD version are priced in excess of 474 dollars(Gulp!) in this Amazon link you supplied, the vinyl version could cost even more.