Sonny Sharrock
Jazzfree jazz pioneeravant-garde guitarfeedback-driven improvisation
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
Influenced by: Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler
- Active:
- 1960s-1994
- Scene:
- NYC avant-garde
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