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A Punter's Guide to Honk and S...

#Guitarist #SonnySharrock can range from string-shredding #sonic chaos to sublime #melodicism - sometimes in the same song. Read about him and other #freejazz #musicians in A Punter’s Guide to Honk and Squeak #Music (aka Free #Jazz) doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/12/by-d... #jazz #JazzSky #MusicSky

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#SonnySharrock can range from string-shredding #sonic chaos to sublime #melodicism - sometimes in the same song. Read about him and other #freejazz #musicians in A Punter’s Guide to Honk and Squeak #Music (aka Free #Jazz) doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/12/by-d... #jazz #JazzSky #MusicSky #guitarists

A Punter's Guide to Honk and S...

A rare foray into #music and a kind of Christmas gift list for the musically adventurous on my #blog Curren(t) Thinking: "A Punter's Guide to Honk & Squeak Music (aka #FreeJazz) #jazz #JazzSky #MusicSky #OrnetteColeman #PharaohSanders #DonCherry #SonnySharrock doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/12/by-d...

A Punter's Guide to Honk and S...

Miles Davis - Jack Johnson

I've read multiple conflicting accounts of how this album came together. Despite it being two tracks (Side A - Right Off; Side B - Yesternow), it was edited together by Teo Macero from a bunch of separate sessions.

But whatever the truth is, the band absolutely cooks. Probably my favorite "Electric Miles" album.

#nowplaying #vinyl #MilesDavis #JohnMcLaughlin #HerbieHancock #ChickCorea #BillyCobham #BennieMaupin #JackDeJohnette #MichaelHenderson #SonnySharrock

Miles Davis - Jack Johnson

I've read multiple conflicting accounts of how this album came together. Despite it being two tracks (Side A - Right Off; Side B - Yesternow), it was edited together by Teo Macero from a bunch of separate sessions.

But whatever the truth is, the band absolutely cooks. Probably my favorite "Electric Miles" album.

#nowplaying #vinyl #MilesDavis #JohnMcLaughlin #HerbieHancock #ChickCorea #BillyCobham #BennieMaupin #JackDeJohnette #MichaelHenderson #SonnySharrock

Miles Davis - Jack Johnson

I've read multiple conflicting accounts of how this album came together. Despite it being two tracks (Side A - Right Off; Side B - Yesternow), it was edited together by Teo Macero from a bunch of separate sessions.

But whatever the truth is, the band absolutely cooks. Probably my favorite "Electric Miles" album.

#nowplaying #vinyl #MilesDavis #JohnMcLaughlin #HerbieHancock #ChickCorea #BillyCobham #BennieMaupin #JackDeJohnette #MichaelHenderson #SonnySharrock

Miles Davis - Jack Johnson

I've read multiple conflicting accounts of how this album came together. Despite it being two tracks (Side A - Right Off; Side B - Yesternow), it was edited together by Teo Macero from a bunch of separate sessions.

But whatever the truth is, the band absolutely cooks. Probably my favorite "Electric Miles" album.

#nowplaying #vinyl #MilesDavis #JohnMcLaughlin #HerbieHancock #ChickCorea #BillyCobham #BennieMaupin #JackDeJohnette #MichaelHenderson #SonnySharrock

Miles Davis - Jack Johnson

I've read multiple conflicting accounts of how this album came together. Despite it being two tracks (Side A - Right Off; Side B - Yesternow), it was edited together by Teo Macero from a bunch of separate sessions.

But whatever the truth is, the band absolutely cooks. Probably my favorite "Electric Miles" album.

#nowplaying #vinyl #MilesDavis #JohnMcLaughlin #HerbieHancock #ChickCorea #BillyCobham #BennieMaupin #JackDeJohnette #MichaelHenderson #SonnySharrock

Whut. This is amazing. As recommended by Zola Jesus, listening in particular for the incredible vocals by Linda Sharrock.

Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman (1969)

https://album.link/ca/i/265632476

#SonnySharrock #LindaSharrock #FreeJazz

Funky music played by a very interesting combination of musicians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjJZ989r8CY

#music #jazz #fusion #SteveMarcus #SonnySharrock #MiroslavVitous #DanielHumair

Pharoah Sanders - "Izipho Zam (My Gifts)" (1973; recorded 1969)

#NowPlaying #PharoahSanders #LeonThomas #LonnieListonSmith #CecilMcBee #SonnySharrock #StrataEast #jazz #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/tIR6Z7aIeuo?si=D2MxOooU9j5-vWZu

#NowPlaying: #LastExit - Last Exit (1986) Some crazy, noisy #jazz from #BillLaswell, #PeterBrötzmann, #RonaldShannonJackson, and #SonnySharrock https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/last-exit-2

#NowPlaying ❝This is going on the radio, that’s how good it is, might as well strike a blow for freedom or whatever. This is dedicated to the South African government, the Israeli government, and those brothers that are gonna get your ass on the way home.❞ — #SonnySharrock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4AwHYeEEAA

❝We never cared about, you know, developing the standard classical European Western techniques or whatever, and I developed my own techniques, Linda developed her own techniques, and I think that's what folk music is about, you know. And jazz: I have a strong feeling that jazz is a folk music.❞ — #SonnySharrock https://web.archive.org/web/20140901214309/http://mysite.verizon.net/vze10ekno/sharrock/scheinin.html

Herbie Mann - "Glory of Love" (1968)

#NowPlaying #HerbieMann #SonnySharrock #RoyAyers #HubertLaws #RonCarter #RolandHanna #RayBarretto #CTIRecords #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/nSc37bnxLIM?si=E1psWvbdmJQ2TwZ0

Herbie Mann - "Glory of Love" (1968)

#NowPlaying #HerbieMann #SonnySharrock #RoyAyers #HubertLaws #RonCarter #RolandHanna #RayBarretto #CTIRecords #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/nSc37bnxLIM?si=E1psWvbdmJQ2TwZ0

Herbie Mann - "Glory of Love" (1968)

#NowPlaying #HerbieMann #SonnySharrock #RoyAyers #HubertLaws #RonCarter #RolandHanna #RayBarretto #CTIRecords #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/nSc37bnxLIM?si=E1psWvbdmJQ2TwZ0

Herbie Mann - "Glory of Love" (1968)

#NowPlaying #HerbieMann #SonnySharrock #RoyAyers #HubertLaws #RonCarter #RolandHanna #RayBarretto #CTIRecords #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/nSc37bnxLIM?si=E1psWvbdmJQ2TwZ0

Herbie Mann - "Glory of Love" (1968)

#NowPlaying #HerbieMann #SonnySharrock #RoyAyers #HubertLaws #RonCarter #RolandHanna #RayBarretto #CTIRecords #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/nSc37bnxLIM?si=E1psWvbdmJQ2TwZ0

Herbie Mann - "Windows Opened" (1968)

#NowPlaying #HerbieMann #SonnySharrock #RoyAyers #MiroslavVitous #BrunoCarr #AtlanticRecords #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIT3lkqN5q2SsV0Z68X4vY2zydubg5ahw&si=TwB_YyAEu1aMuB6c

Sonny Sharrock - "Blind Willie" https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/track/blind-willie-2 #SonnySharrock #guitar #jazz #Bandcamp #music

New #review today: "#LocationLocationLocation is a jazzy guitar trio that, for me, hits a sweet spot balancing composition and improvisation on their debut, Damaged Goods. While #AnthonyPirog’s guitar is far more mangled, both electronically and harmonically, than is common in jazz, the group’s music is clearly in the vein previously mined by groups led by #RaoulBjörkenheim, #TerjeRypdal, #SonnySharrock, #NelsCline, and others." #ExposeOnline #jazz #AvantJazz #JazzRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/location-location-location-damaged-goods-2.html

New #review today: "#LocationLocationLocation is a jazzy guitar trio that, for me, hits a sweet spot balancing composition and improvisation on their debut, Damaged Goods. While #AnthonyPirog’s guitar is far more mangled, both electronically and harmonically, than is common in jazz, the group’s music is clearly in the vein previously mined by groups led by #RaoulBjörkenheim, #TerjeRypdal, #SonnySharrock, #NelsCline, and others." #ExposeOnline #jazz #AvantJazz #JazzRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/location-location-location-damaged-goods-2.html

New #review today: "#LocationLocationLocation is a jazzy guitar trio that, for me, hits a sweet spot balancing composition and improvisation on their debut, Damaged Goods. While #AnthonyPirog’s guitar is far more mangled, both electronically and harmonically, than is common in jazz, the group’s music is clearly in the vein previously mined by groups led by #RaoulBjörkenheim, #TerjeRypdal, #SonnySharrock, #NelsCline, and others." #ExposeOnline #jazz #AvantJazz #JazzRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/location-location-location-damaged-goods-2.html

New #review today: "#LocationLocationLocation is a jazzy guitar trio that, for me, hits a sweet spot balancing composition and improvisation on their debut, Damaged Goods. While #AnthonyPirog’s guitar is far more mangled, both electronically and harmonically, than is common in jazz, the group’s music is clearly in the vein previously mined by groups led by #RaoulBjörkenheim, #TerjeRypdal, #SonnySharrock, #NelsCline, and others." #ExposeOnline #jazz #AvantJazz #JazzRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/location-location-location-damaged-goods-2.html

Herbie Mann - "Memphis Two-Step" (1971)

#HerbieMann #SonnySharrock #RoyAyers #RonCarter #LarryCoryell
#vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nojfMSB7jti22R8eQCsjZpARF9zrXKAi8&si=c7kXqOs9JxcG6dB6

Herbie Mann - "Memphis Underground" (1969)

#HerbieMann #NowPlaying #SonnySharrock #RoyAyers #LarryCoryell #vinyl #jazz #AtlanticRecords #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdhlnovZOOW3oOEMkPq-qA1a_Nq_9QQvv&si=d8s9G-DixdZtWKLK

Herbie Mann - "Stone Flute" (1970)

#HerbieMann #NowPlaying #SonnySharrock #RoyAyers #RonCarter #jazz #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/zwY75gziVIQ?si=znLpYqpoTbxWstTb

Last Exit's Iron Path was the CD that convinced me to finally buy a CD player in 1988. (Though ultimately "Noise of Trouble: Live in Tokyo" is my fave of their recordings.)

#PeterBrotzmann #RonaldShannonJackson #BillLaswell #SonnySharrock #PeterBrötzmann #LastExit #IronPath

#NowPlaying Byard Lancaster - It's Not Up To Us (Superior Viaduct, 2023).

I've never seen the original released in 1968 on the Vortex label, an Atlantic subsidiary. So I picked up the Superior Viaduct recent reissue.

With Sonny Sharrock on guitar.

#ByardLancaster #SuperiorViaduct #SonnySharrock

Last Exit - "Discharge" https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/track/discharge #LastExit #PeterBrötzmann #SonnySharrock #Bill Laswell #RonaldShannonJackson #freejazz #Bandcamp #music

#NowPlaying Bill Laswell just dropped a 24-bit version of #LastExit’s only studio album.

In Memory:
#PeterBrötzmann (March 6, 1941 – June 22, 2023)
#SonnySharrock (August 27, 1940 – May 26, 1994)
#RonaldShannonJackson (January 12, 1940 – October 19, 2013)

https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/iron-path-24-bit

#PeterBrötzmann in #LastExit live at Deutsches Jazzfestival, 1986 with #RonaldShannonJackson, #SonnySharrock, and #BillLaswell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKYq4H3-iKM

Sonny Sharrock - "Black Woman" (1969)

#NowPlaying #SonnySharrock #MilfordGraves #jazz #freejazz #vinyl #vinylrecords #VortexRecords @vinylrecords

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k1S3Y4LKt4Guz_-Lk8FGUvL2bFrmCxo8M

Another great Vortex reissue from Superior Viaduct. "Black Woman" was produced by Herbie Mann, with whom Sharrock recorded "Memphis Underground" in the same year.

Byard Lancaster - "It's Not Up To Us" (1968)

#NowPlaying #ByardLancaster #SonnySharrock #jazz #freejazz #PhillyJazz #VortexRecords #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lmcRbdPwz8t-2sfuOo-Fx9RzcQR7YT7TE

Much needed reissue of Byard Lancaster's 1968 debut lp. Prominently features the great Sonny Sharrock on guitar. Check out BL's version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", and then stay tuned for Sharrock's performance on "Satan". A truly terrific record.