Sonny Sharrock
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- Sonny Sharrock Band - Lucerna Hall Prague 4.10.90 — Themself
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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 <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sonny+Sharrock">
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sonny
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ossining
- Place of death
- Ossining
- Educated at
- Berklee College of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- funk
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.sonnysharrock.com
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- date of birth
- 1940-08-27
- date of death
- 1994-05-26
- manner of death
- natural causes
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- start of work period
- 1966-00-00
- end of work period
- 1994-00-00
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