Sonny Sharrock

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Who Does She Hope To Be? 04:42 Tools
Promises Kept 00:00 Tools
Many Mansions 00:00 Tools
Blind Willie 00:00 Tools
Black Woman 00:00 Tools
As We Used To Sing 00:00 Tools
Little Rock 00:00 Tools
Once Upon A Time 00:00 Tools
Peanut 00:00 Tools
Bialero 00:00 Tools
Portrait of Linda in Three Colors, All Black 00:00 Tools
Blind Willy 00:00 Tools
Broken Toys 00:00 Tools
Devils Doll Baby 00:00 Tools
Black Bottom 00:00 Tools
Kula-Mae 00:00 Tools
Like Voices Of Sleeping Birds 00:00 Tools
The Past Adventures Of Zydeco Honeycup 00:00 Tools
Hit Single 00:00 Tools
My Song 00:00 Tools
J. D. Schaa 00:00 Tools
Princess Sonata:Flowers Laugh 00:00 Tools
Soon 00:00 Tools
Seize The Rainbow 00:00 Tools
Fourteen 10:01 Tools
Fear of a Ghost Planet 00:00 Tools
Dick Dogs 00:00 Tools
Cinnamon Ghost 00:00 Tools
Ghost Planet National Anthem 00:00 Tools
Out to Launch 00:00 Tools
Rocket #99 00:00 Tools
Sheraserhead's Hightop Sneakers 00:00 Tools
Princess Sonata:Princess and the Magician 00:00 Tools
Monkey-Pockie-Boo 00:00 Tools
27th Day 00:00 Tools
Princess Sonata:They Enter the Dream 00:00 Tools
Improvised Music #5 00:00 Tools
Ghost Planet National Anthem (remix) 00:00 Tools
Improvised Music #6 00:00 Tools
Princess Sonata: Flowers Laugh 00:00 Tools
Portret Of Linda In Three Colors, All Black 00:00 Tools
Princess Sonata: Princess And The Magician 00:00 Tools
Princess And The Magician 00:00 Tools
Flowers Laugh 00:00 Tools
Princess Sonata: They Enter the Dream 00:00 Tools
They Enter The Dream 00:00 Tools
J.D. Schaa 00:00 Tools
Who Are You 00:00 Tools
Peaceful 00:00 Tools
1953 Blue Boogie Children 00:00 Tools
End Of The Rainbow 00:00 Tools
Space Ghost C2C Theme 00:00 Tools
Venus 00:00 Tools
Sheraserhead's High-Top Sneakers 00:00 Tools
Pioneering 00:00 Tools
Apollo 00:00 Tools
Becoming 00:00 Tools
Highlife 00:00 Tools
Venus/Upper Egypt 00:00 Tools
The Past Adventures of Zydeco Honey Cup 00:00 Tools
Mescalito 00:00 Tools
Miss Doris 00:00 Tools
No More Tears 00:00 Tools
The Sound Pool, Pt. 2 (Excerpt) 00:00 Tools
All My trials 00:00 Tools
Sweet Butterfingers 00:00 Tools
Uncle Herbie's Dance 00:00 Tools
Gary's Step 00:00 Tools
In the Flesh 00:00 Tools
Dance With Me Montana 00:00 Tools
Interview with Sonny Sharrock 00:00 Tools
Giant Steps 00:00 Tools
Sacrifice 00:00 Tools
Chumpy 00:00 Tools
First of Equals 00:00 Tools
The Pyre 00:00 Tools
Kate (Variations on a Theme by Kate Bush) 00:00 Tools
Portrait of Linda in Three Col 00:00 Tools
Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
Princess Sonata 00:00 Tools
Slow Drag 00:00 Tools
Soon - Original 00:00 Tools
Uncle Herbies Dance 00:00 Tools
She's Only Fourteen 00:00 Tools
74-75 00:00 Tools
Marpasa Dawn/Song to Chester 00:00 Tools
Live WKCR Intro 00:00 Tools
Purple, Blue, Green & Yellow 00:00 Tools
Herbie's Dance 00:00 Tools
Space Ghost Coast-To-Coast 00:00 Tools
Kate 00:00 Tools
Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme 00:00 Tools
upper egypt and lower egypt 00:00 Tools
Bit Her 00:00 Tools
emcee intro 00:00 Tools
Unknown #1 00:00 Tools
Princess Sonata: Princess and 00:00 Tools
Space Ghost Coast To Coast 00:00 Tools
Portrait of Linda in 3 Colors, All Black 00:00 Tools
Princess Sonata: Like Voices o 00:00 Tools
Elmo's Blues 00:00 Tools
Princess Sonata: They Enter th 00:00 Tools
Alligator And Kangaroo 00:00 Tools
Money Honey 00:00 Tools
One In The Bush Is Worth Two In The Hand 00:00 Tools
Piece 1 00:00 Tools
Twenty Seventh Day 00:00 Tools
Dick Dogs [Alt. Take] 00:00 Tools
74-75 [Alt. Take] 00:00 Tools
Red Ribbons 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Linda In Three Colors, All Black (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
05 Highlife 00:00 Tools
Venus / Upper Egypt 00:00 Tools
Juggler 00:00 Tools
Who Does She Hope To Be_ 00:00 Tools
Untitled 2 00:00 Tools
Marpasa Dawn/Song To Chester [Alt. Take] 00:00 Tools
Black Woman (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Portrait of Linda in Three Colors, All... 00:00 Tools
Dance With Me Montana [Alt. Take] 00:00 Tools
Untitled 1 00:00 Tools
01 Intro 00:00 Tools
Slow Drag [Alt. Take] 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
Ask The Ages 1991 (Full Album) 00:00 Tools
Unknown #2 00:00 Tools
As We Used To Sing (1991) 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Linda In Three Colors All Black 00:00 Tools
Sonny Sharrock Jam #1 (extended 75s opening theme) 00:00 Tools
Untitled 3 00:00 Tools
06 Outro 00:00 Tools
Ask The Ages 1991 00:00 Tools
Improvised Music #4 00:00 Tools
Stupid Fuck 00:00 Tools
Audio Track From Episode #23 "Sonny Sharrock" 00:00 Tools
Unititled 4 00:00 Tools
Devil's Doll Baby 00:00 Tools
03 - bialero 00:00 Tools
Bialero (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Blind Willie (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
interview 00:00 Tools
Peanut (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Portrait of Linda in Three Colors 00:00 Tools
Sonny Sharrock Jam #2 00:00 Tools
Black Women 00:00 Tools
01 27th Day 00:00 Tools
05 - portrait of linda in three colors, all black 00:00 Tools
Kula Mae 00:00 Tools
Improvised Music #1 00:00 Tools
Under Attack 00:00 Tools
Outro 00:00 Tools
Hit Single (Space Ghost Cost To Coast) 00:00 Tools
Space Ghost 00:00 Tools
Portrait of Linda 00:00 Tools
Ask The Ages (Full Album) 00:00 Tools
Once Upon A Time (AD edit) 00:00 Tools
Sonny Sharrock - Dick Dogs 00:00 Tools
04 - blind willie 00:00 Tools
Black Woman - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Space Ghost Theme 00:00 Tools
Sonny Sharrock Jam #4 (Ghost Planet National Anthem) (2-minute extended desk theme) 00:00 Tools
Sonny Sharrock Jam #3 (Attack Theme) 00:00 Tools
Theme 00:00 Tools
02 Soon 00:00 Tools
“Who Does She Hope To Be?” 00:00 Tools
(Black Woman) 1 Black Woman 00:00 Tools
Live at WKCR 03/21/74 00:00 Tools
JD SChaa 00:00 Tools
Melvin 00:00 Tools
Hit Single (open) 00:00 Tools
Green Line 00:00 Tools
Mr. Sheets At Night 00:00 Tools
The Past Adventures Of Zydeco 00:00 Tools
Rocket Number 99 00:00 Tools
Peanut - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Damn Seagulls - Once upon a time 00:00 Tools
J D Schaa 00:00 Tools
As We Used to Sing [1991] 00:00 Tools
02 Who Does She Hope to Be? 00:00 Tools
02 - peanut 00:00 Tools
High Life 00:00 Tools
Arkansas 00:00 Tools
(Black Woman) 5 Portret Of Linda In Three Colors, All Black 00:00 Tools
The Echos 00:00 Tools
Sonny Sharrock - Sonny Sharrock - Dick Dogs 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Linda In Three Colors, All Black - LP Version 00:00 Tools
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Sonny Sharrock (Warren Harding Sharrock; August 27, 1940–May 25, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. He was once married to singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he sometimes recorded and performed. One of few guitarists in the first wave of free jazz in the 1960s, Sharrock was known for his incisive, heavily chorded attack, his bursts of wild feedback, and for his use of saxophone-like lines played loudly on guitar. He had in fact wanted to play tenor saxophone from his youth after hearing John Coltrane play on Miles Davis' album Kind of Blue on the radio at age 19, but his asthma prohibited it. However Sharrock had repeatedly said that he still considered himself "a horn player with a really f***ed up axe." Sharrock began his musical career singing doo wop as a teenager. He worked with Pharoah Sanders and Alexander Solla in the late 1960s, appearing first on Sanders's 1966 release Tauhid. He collaborated several times with flautist Herbie Mann and also appeared uncredited on Miles Davis' A Tribute to Jack Johnson, arguably his most famous collaboration. Three albums under Sharrock's name were released in the late '60s through the mid-'70s: Black Woman, Monkey-Pockie-Boo, and an album co-credited to both Sonny and his wife Linda, Paradise, though Sharrock believed the album was embarrassingly bad and argued against its reissue). After the release of Paradise, Sharrock was semi-retired for much of the 1970s, undergoing a divorce from wife/occasional collaborator Linda in 1978. By the 80s producer/bassist Bill Laswell coaxed Sharrock out of retirement, convincing Sharrock to play on his group Material's 1981 album, Memory Serves. Sharrock and Laswell were also members of the punk-jazz band Last Exit, along with saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and drummer and Ornette Coleman alumnus Ronald Shannon Jackson. During the late 1980s, Sharrock recorded and performed extensively with the New York-based improvisational band Machine Gun, as well as leading his own bands. Sharrock flourished with Laswell's help, noting in a 1991 interview that "the last five years have been pretty strange for me, because I went twelve years without making a record at all, and then in the last five years, I've made seven records under my own name. That's pretty strange." Laswell would often perform with Sharrock on his albums, and produced many of his recordings including the solo Guitar, the metal-influenced Seize the Rainbow, and the well-received Ask the Ages, which featured Pharoah Sanders on saxophone and in-demand drummer Elvin Jones. One writer described Ask the Ages as "hands down, Sharrock's finest hour, and the ideal album to play for those who claim to hate jazz guitar." In 1994, Sharrock died unexpectedly of a heart attack in his hometown of Ossining, New York, just as he was on the verge of signing the first major label record deal of his entire career. He was 53. Today, Sharrock is perhaps best known for the soundtrack to the Cartoon Network program Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, one of the last projects he completed in the studio before his death. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.