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Sonny Sharrock
Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock (August 27, 1940 – May 25, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. His first wife was singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he recorded and performed. One of only a few prominent guitarists who participated in the first wave of free jazz during the 1960s, Sharrock was known for his heavily chorded attack, use of feedback, and distorted saxophone-like lines. His early work also features creative use of slide guitar. Biography Early life and career Sonny Sharrock was born Warren Harding Sharrock on August 27, 1940, in Ossining, New York. He began his musical career singing doo-wop in his teen years. He collaborated with Pharoah Sanders and Alexander Solla in the late 1960s, first appearing on Sanders's 1966 album '' Tauhid''. He made several appearances with flautist Herbie Mann and an uncredited appearance on Miles Davis' '' A Tribute to Jack Johnson''. Sharrock first wanted to play tenor saxophone after hearing John Coltrane on Davis' ''Kind of Blue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ossining, New York
Ossining ( ) is a town located along the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York. The population was 40,061 at the time of the 2020 census. It contains two villages, the Village of Ossining and part of Briarcliff Manor, the rest of which is located in the Town of Mount Pleasant. Ossining is the location of Sing Sing maximum-security prison. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (26.43%) is water. Ossining is bounded on the west by the Hudson River and on the north by the Croton River. History In 1685, Frederick Philipse bought the area which presently constitutes the Town of Ossining from the Sint Sinck, a Munsee-speaking Lenape people. His Manor extended from Spuyten Duyvil Creek on the border between present-day Manhattan and the Bronx to the Croton River. The last Lord of the Manor, Frederick Philipse III, was a Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War who fled to England. The State of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audio Feedback
Audio feedback (also known as acoustic feedback, simply as feedback) is a positive feedback situation that may occur when an acoustic path exists between an audio output (for example, a loudspeaker) and its audio input (for example, a microphone or guitar pickup). In this example, a signal received by the microphone is amplified and passed out of the loudspeaker. The sound from the loudspeaker can then be received by the microphone again, amplified further, and then passed out through the loudspeaker again. The frequency of the resulting howl is determined by resonance frequencies in the microphone, amplifier, and loudspeaker, the acoustics of the room, the directional pick-up and emission patterns of the microphone and loudspeaker, and the distance between them. The principles of audio feedback were first discovered by Danish scientist Søren Absalon Larsen, hence it is also known as the Larsen effect. Feedback is almost always considered undesirable when it occurs with a si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitar (Sonny Sharrock Album)
''Guitar'' is a 1986 studio album by American jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock. He recorded the album with producer Bill Laswell at RPM Sound Studios in New York City. As the project's sole instrumentalist, Sharrock performed and overdubbed his guitar improvisations onto other sections of a song he had recorded beforehand. ''Guitar'' was released by Enemy Records to positive reviews from critics, who praised Sharrock's compositions, playing, and use of distortion. The album was named the eighth best of 1986 by rock critic Robert Christgau, while jazz writer Ian Carr said it epitomized the electric guitar's range as an instrument. Composition and recording ''Guitar'' was viewed by Sharrock as the culmination of a period in his career spent developing his sense of composition. After releasing his first record, '' Black Woman'', in 1969, he experimented with different influences during the 1970s. When he recorded "Dance with Me Montana" in 1982, the song's chord progression change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Ronald Shannon Jackson (January 12, 1940 – October 19, 2013) was an American jazz drummer from Fort Worth, Texas. A pioneer of avant-garde jazz, free funk, and jazz fusion, he appeared on over 50 albums as a bandleader, sideman, arranger, and producer. Jackson and bassist Sirone are the only musicians to have performed and recorded with the three prime shapers of free jazz: pianist Cecil Taylor, and saxophonists Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler. ''Musician, Player and Listener'' magazine writers David Breskin and Rafi Zabor called him "the most stately free-jazz drummer in the history of the idiom, a regal and thundering presence." Gary Giddins wrote "Jackson is an astounding drummer, as everyone agrees...he has emerged as a kind of all-purpose new-music connoisseur who brings a profound and unshakably individual approach to every playing situation." In 1979, he founded his own group, the Decoding Society, playing what has been dubbed free funk: a blend of funk rhythm a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memory Serves
''Memory Serves'' is a 1981 album by the New York based No Wave music group Material.Jazzlists: Elektra Musician LP discography accessed March 20, 2018 Track listing #"Memory Serves" (, ) – 5:08 #"Disappearing" (, Sonny Sharrock, Laswell, Beinhorn, |
Material (band)
Material was an American band formed in 1979 and operating until 1999, led by producer and bassist Bill Laswell. The group began in 1978 coalescing at Giorgio Gomelsky's Zu House in Manhattan with at its core Laswell, Michael Beinhorn, Fred Maher, Cliff Cultreri and Kramer, acting as a house band for visiting European musicians, such as Daevid Allen. Laswell, Beinhorn, Maher and Cultreri evolved as Material in 1979 first releasing the '' Temporary Music'' EP, followed by two more albums ('' Memory Serves'' and '' One Down'') with an ever-revolving list of contributors, including singers such as Nona Hendryx, Bernard Fowler and Whitney Houston. From 1982, the name would be used by Laswell and Beinhorn for many projects, including Herbie Hancock's ''Future Shock'' album and " Rockit" single, Timezone's "World Destruction" single, and from 1985 onward solely by Laswell such as on Sly and Robbie's '' Rhythm Killers'' and Public Image Ltd.'s ''Album''. Laswell would con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkey-Pockie-Boo
''Monkey-Pockie-Boo'' is the second album by American jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock, recorded in 1970 in Paris and released on the BYG Actuel label. accessed July 13, 2015 Reception AllMusic awarded the album 2½ stars, stating, "It is an album one wants to like, but it is as difficult to like as the losers at cheerleader tryouts. Not all the problems can be blamed on Big Sonny, but he does decide to lay out on guitar for nearly half of the first side's 17-minute opus... in the end it subtracts from, not adds to, the pleasure of enjoying Sharrock's playing. Of course, there are moments of quality guitar skronking."Track listing ''All compositions by Sonny Sharrock except as indicated'' # "27th Day" – 16:55 # "Soon" (Linda Sharroc ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Woman (album)
''Black Woman'' is the debut album by American jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock, recorded in 1969 and released on the Vortex label. In 2000, it was reissued by the Collectables label, paired with the Wayne Henderson album ''People Get Ready''. The album was produced by flutist Herbie Mann, with whom Sharrock recorded nine albums. When asked about his fondness for Sharrock's playing, Mann commented: "Lots of people say they can't understand how Sonny Sharrock can be in my band. The only reason for them saying that is: possibly they think that when you're a bandleader you expect all your children to be brought up in your exact image. Which just shows that people and critics don't know anything about individuals." Reception In a review for AllMusic, Wilson McCloy awarded the album 3½ stars, and stated: "''Black Woman'' marks an early opportunity for Sharrock's own voice to be heard... This album is not for everyone, even Sonny Sharrock fans may find the music beyond their wildest e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kind Of Blue
''Kind of Blue'' is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on August17,1959, by Columbia Records. For this album, Davis led a sextet featuring saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianist Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, with new band pianist Wynton Kelly replacing Evans on " Freddie Freeloader". The album was recorded at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City in two sessions on March2 and April22,1959. Influenced in part by Evans, who had been a member of the ensemble in 1958 and was called back for this album, Davis departed further from his early hard bop style in favor of greater experimentation with musical modes, as on the title track of his previous album, ''Milestones'' (1958). Basing ''Kind of Blue'' entirely on modality, Davis gave each performer a set of scales that encompassed the parameters of their improvisation and style and consequently more creative freedom with melodies; Coltra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the Jazz#Post-war jazz, history of jazz and 20th-century music. Born and raised in North Carolina, after graduating from high school Coltrane moved to Philadelphia, where he studied music. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of Modal jazz, modes and was one of the players at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least fifty recording sessions and appeared on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk. Over the course of his career, Coltrane's music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension, as exemplified on his most acclaimed album ''A Love Supreme'' (1965) and others. Decades after his death, Coltrane remains influential, and he has received numerous posthumous awards, including a Pulitzer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Johnson (album)
''Jack Johnson'' (also known as ''A Tribute To Jack Johnson'' on reissues) is a studio album and soundtrack album, soundtrack by the American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis. It was released on February 24, 1971, by Columbia Records. The album was conceived by Davis for Bill Cayton's Jack Johnson (film), documentary of the same name, on the life of boxer Jack Johnson (boxer), Jack Johnson. Its two 25-minute-plus tracks were produced from recordings made on February 18 and April 7, 1970, at CBS 30th Street Studio, 30th Street Studio in New York City. Davis was inspired by the political and racial subtext of Johnson's saga as well as the hard rock and funk sounds of his own era, leading a rock-inspired line-up of musicians in the studio: guitarists John McLaughlin (musician), John McLaughlin and Sonny Sharrock, keyboardists Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, saxophonist Steve Grossman (saxophonist), Steve Grossman, bass clarinetist Bennie Maupin, electric bassist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tauhid (album)
''Tauhid'' is a jazz album by saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. It was the second album released under his name, and his first album on the Impulse! label. It was recorded on November 15, 1966 at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, four days after the concert heard on the John Coltrane album Offering: Live at Temple University, and was released in 1967, after the death of Coltrane, with whom Sanders had played since 1965. ''Tauhid'' was reissued in 2017 on Anthology Recordings. The album marks guitarist Sonny Sharrock's first appearance on a record, as well as one of pianist Dave Burrell's earliest recordings. In the album liner notes, Sanders wrote: "I don't really see the horn anymore. I'm trying to see myself. And similarly, as to the sounds I get, it's not that I'm trying to scream on my horn, I'm just trying to put all my feelings into the horn. And when you do that, the notes go away... Why oI want clusters f notes So that I anget more feeling, more of me, into ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
