7/4 Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 (edited) Happy Birthday Sonny Sharrock (August 27, 1940 – May 26, 1994). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Sharrock Edited August 27, 2009 by 7/4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free For All Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 I love this side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted August 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 That's the one I was thinking of. I posted an image, but it didn't show up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ep1str0phy Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 Sonny is my hero, straight up. The two pillars of his recordings for me are Ask the Ages and Black Woman--the former maybe the most flawlessly epic "trad" free jazz album of the 90's, the latter one of the most jagged and brutal "free" or "guitar" albums period. Sonny is one of the few musicians I've ever heard from whom I've liked pretty much everything (even, to a lesser degree, the very poppy Highlife). I do recall, though, Sonny somehwere putting down Paradise, and I agree with a vengeance--it runs the gamut from pap to shit, with all of ten minutes across the album of genuinely cool stuff. Wish there was more of Sonny's early, pre-distortion, semi-hollow, walking on glass phase in circulation. There was that one Sonny/Sunny Murray duet track circulating a while ago that sounded fantastic. I'm happy, I guess, with his occasional emergence on other peoples' albums and his handful of leader dates from the late 60's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 Does anyone have a list of all the Herbie Mann recordings featuring Sonny Sharrock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bip Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 (edited) Herbie Mann's Song Book Memphis Underground Windows Open The Inspiration I Feel The Evolution of Man Concerto Grosso in D Blues Stone Flute Live at the Whiskey A-Go-Go Memphis Two-Step Herbie Mann '71 Hold On, I'm Comin' Edited August 27, 2009 by Joe Bip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 Herbie Mann's Song Book Memphis Underground Windows Open The Inspiration I Feel The Evolution of Man Concerto Grosso in D Blues Stone Flute Live at the Whiskey A-Go-Go Memphis Two-Step Herbie Mann '71 Hold On, I'm Comin' Thanks, I didn't realize there were that many--I was just listening to Hold On, I'm Comin' recently--Sonny Sharrock with David Newman, what a band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bip Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 I got all the Atlantic ones on vinyl cheaply but haven't gone any further. I'm just not a huge Mann listener. Haven't listened to them recently but if memory serves, Sharrock stays pretty much in the background on a lot of the Atlantic Mann discs. I've made a habit of getting as many things as I can with Sharrock. I generally love his sound, and the only ones I have that are painful to listen to are Live in New York and Highlife, mainly because of the keyboards. I love Linda Sharrock, too, although I haven't heard anything she's done in years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 I'm not a Herbie Mann fan at all, but I've been making people listen to side two of Live at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go for years. There's only one tune, "Philly Dog," and Sharrock has a solo near the end that's absolutely insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 (edited) I love Linda Sharrock, too, although I haven't heard anything she's done in years. Her last CD, Confessions, received the 2005 Hans Koller Award. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf9jM7biCGY has her with bassist Claude Tchamitchian and pianist Stephan Oliva, her musical partners in recent years. Edited August 27, 2009 by mikeweil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 This Youtube clip features the Herbie Mann Quintet with Steve Marcus, Sonny Sharrock, Miroslav Vitous, and Bruno Carr - that band exactly was my second jazz concert ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewHill Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 (edited) I love this side. Yes! and "Guitar" on Enemy. Edit to add that I really dig his work with Last Exit and Machine Gun too. Edited August 28, 2009 by Holy Ghost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 This Youtube clip features the Herbie Mann Quintet with Steve Marcus, Sonny Sharrock, Miroslav Vitous, and Bruno Carr - that band exactly was my second jazz concert ever! Great video! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewHill Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 This Youtube clip features the Herbie Mann Quintet with Steve Marcus, Sonny Sharrock, Miroslav Vitous, and Bruno Carr - that band exactly was my second jazz concert ever! Great video! Just watched this. Woah, I've never seen Sonny in action back in the day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WD45 Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 I am fond of this YouTube clip with Melvin Gibbs and Sharrock. There are few albums I have listened to more than Ask the Ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMP Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 The Sharrock solos on Mann's albums, as wild as they are, are turned way down - in person, people would be heading for the exits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 I kinda like Highlife, "All My Trials" esp'ly, however wrongheaded the pop production values, keyboards particularly, may seem, he really puts his heart into it and the band grooves. Any thoughts on how much of the later albums success (guitar and Ask the Ages for example) is Laswell's doing. I saw him live around that period and it was pretty scattered... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 The Sharrock solos on Mann's albums, as wild as they are, are turned way down - in person, people would be heading for the exits. I didn't ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 (edited) I was craving some unheard (by me) Sonny Sharrock, and today's arrival from dustygroove, Dance With Me Montana on Marge, is definitely hitting the spot. (It's a trio recording from 1982.) Edited November 14, 2009 by kh1958 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockefeller center Posted July 3, 2012 Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 Linda Sharrock in 2012: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted July 3, 2012 Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 I find a lot of the later Sharrock as posted on his web site to be weirdly and dully slick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted July 3, 2012 Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 The Sharrock solos on Mann's albums, as wild as they are, are turned way down - in person, people would be heading for the exits. Ben Ratliff: Mm-hmm. Had you ever thought that you were going to provoke such reactions, though? I mean, we were just talking about a couple of outrageous things that were written and said about you in the early days. ...Apparently on a radio show, Ira Gitler made the comment that he wanted "to put Sonny in a bathtub with his amplifier," which is a bit extreme. [sonny laughing] And we were reading through a couple of old reviews in "down beat" that, while having, you know, sort of quite a bit of respect for you in giving one of your albums three and a half stars, the reviewer proceeded to say something about the fact that he would rather walk out on your solos than stay... I mean, it's hard for me to believe that, you know, people would have that reaction. Sonny Sharrock: Yeah, well, you know, it's not hard for me because I was there and I used to see it. It didn't bother me, it didn't bother me, and I was always amazed it didn't bother Herbie. He dug what I was doing, he liked it being in the band, he never once in all those years told me to play any differently than I do, not that I could or would, but, you know, it never came up. http://www.sonnysharrock.com/info.asp?pgs=wkcrinterview Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabshakeh Posted April 25, 2021 Report Share Posted April 25, 2021 The rare good article from the increasingly dreadful Pitchfork media: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sonny-sharrock-ask-the-ages/amp/?__twitter_impression=true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted April 26, 2021 Report Share Posted April 26, 2021 7 hours ago, Rabshakeh said: The rare good article from the increasingly dreadful Pitchfork media: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sonny-sharrock-ask-the-ages/amp/?__twitter_impression=true Not bad. Ask the Ages is all that, and more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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