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Sonny Sharrock
American guitarist who brought free jazz's harmonic freedom to the electric guitar, without recourse to distortion as a crutch.
Sonny Sharrock (1940-1994) was an American guitarist who applied free jazz’s harmonic and rhythmic freedom directly to the electric guitar, in his own groups, with Herbie Mann and Pharoah Sanders, and as a member of Last Exit.
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Sonny Sharrock RELEASE 1991
Sonny Sharrock's 1991 album with Pharoah Sanders, Charnett Moffett, and Elvin Jones, produced by Bill Laswell.
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Sonny Sharrock, Peter Brötzmann, Bill Laswell, Ronald Shannon Jackson RELEASE 1986
The self-titled 1986 debut of the free-jazz/noise group Last Exit.
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