Echo Park-Silver Lake Patch was delighted to learn about return of Sonji Kimmons to a Silver Lake stage via contributor Lionel Rolfe. 

Here's a bit of Rolfe's piece for the Patch:                          

Sonji Kimmons has appeared as a headliner on some of the top venues in Europe, Asia and Africa, but since her return to her native Los Angeles in 1997,  she has been less appreciated. In this she isn’t unusual. Many of the American jazz greats who once called Los Angeles home have traditionally beat their way to places like London and Paris and Zurich to ply their trade.

This has been a pattern not only amongst black jazz musicians. Mark Twain didn’t really get appreciated as the great writer he was until he went to Europe.

This Saturday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., this one of the last great but mostly unheralded blues pianists and singers in the world makes a rare appearance at MJs in Silver Lake at 2810 Hyperion Ave.

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