Thursday, March 30, 2017

Black Woman !!

Yet another Jazz great who died relatively young; 53. Sonny started
musically in his teens singing Doo Wop, until he moved on to collaborate
with Pharoah Sanders, and Alexander Solla in the late 60s. He wanted to play
tenor saxophone from his youth after hearing John Coltrane on Davis's
Kind of Blue on the radio at age 19, but his asthma prevented this.
Sharrock said repeatedly, however, that he still considered himself "a
horn player with a really fucked up axe.". I posted this album some
years ago, but the link is dead, and I have recently listened to it again.
So, here we are haha. Anyway, read more about him, if you're
interested. Now, for the album ...

Bass – Norris Jones, Richard Pierce (tracks: B1 to B3)
Drums – Milford Graves
Guitar – Sonny Sharrock
Piano – Dave Burrell
Producer – Herbie Mann
Trumpet – Teddy Daniel* (tracks: B1 to B3)
Voice – Linda Sharrock

Sonny Sharrock
1969

8 comments:

  1. https://www.dropbox.com/s/bzd5jb6wzd9cyis/Black%20Woman%201969.zip?dl=0

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  2. Lost this one. It's a goody. thanx

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  3. Thank you! I was lucky to see Sonny perform decades ago at the original Knitting Factory in NYC.

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    1. Get out of here! Wow, who else played?

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    2. it maybe was this show....but it was a long time ago and my memory is fuzzy:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_New_York_(Sonny_Sharrock_album)

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  4. I just found out that Sonny did the OST for Space Ghost, back in '94! I found one to share if anyone is interested

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