The career of the late Sonny Sharrock is unique in modern jazz. He first aspired as a doo-wop singer, determined to take music as his vocation after listening to Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue." Aspired ...

Guitarist Sonny Sharrock had been recording since 1969, in a variety of formats. In 1991, he recorded his masterpiece, Ask the Ages for Axiom records. The recording was produced by Sharrock and MOD ...

Questlove‘s new Summer of Soul doc is a trove of incredible footage, featuring extended clips of Sly and the Family Stone, Mavis Staples, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, and other icons at the height of ...

The cover for jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock’s debut album, 1969's Black Woman, could have easily doubled as a movie poster for the 1970s version of Queen & Slim. The photo taken by Ray Gibson (with ...

Sonny Sharrock, a noted cutting-edge guitarist, performs with his band Highlife at Real Art Ways’ 13th annual RAW Jazz Festival in Hartford. RAW’s fest of experimental music will be July 24 and 25 at ...

A little more than two years ago I shared a track from the brilliant 1991 album Ask the Ages by guitarist Sonny Sharrock as a 12 O’Clock Track. It might seem excessive to post a different cut from ...

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Coltrane was dead. And flautist Herbie Mann's band didn't boast the jaw-dropping hive mind of Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet. What Mann had was a splendid band of creative misfits. Among others: ...

Ahead of her appearance at Le Guess Who? Stewart Smith guides us through the music of Linda Sharrock, and speaks to her collaborators Mario Rechtern and Margaret Unknown about her return to music ...

October 27, 2009 • Throughout the '80s and early '90s, John Zorn and Bill Laswell were at the epicenter of extreme music. Hear five bands that take the ferocity of '60s free jazz and match it with ...