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Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom. Contents Clark was born and raised in Herminie, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town southeast of {{jny: Pittsburgh}}. At age 12, he moved to Pittsburgh. When visiting an aunt in California at age 20, Clark decided to stay and began working with saxophonist {{m: Wardell Gray = 7187}}. Clark went to {{jny: San Francisco}} with {{m: Oscar Pettiford = 10261}} and after a couple months, was working with clarinetist {{m: Buddy DeFranco = 6196}} in 1953. Clark toured the U.S. and Europe with DeFranco until January 1956, when he joined The Lighthouse All-Stars, led by bassist {{m: Howard Rumsey = 3966}}.

Wishing to return to the east coast, Clark served as accompanist for singer {{m: Dinah Washington = 11174}} in February 1957 in order to relocate to {{jny: New York City}}

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News: Recording

Washington D.c. Based Jazz Pianist Geoffrey Dean Releases His New Quartet Album 'Foundations' Featuring Harish Raghavan, Justin Copeland, Eric Binder

Washington D.c. Based Jazz Pianist Geoffrey Dean Releases His New Quartet Album 'Foundations' Featuring Harish Raghavan, Justin Copeland, Eric Binder

Dr. Geoffrey Dean is a jazz pianist, composer, author and educator currently performing in the Washington D.C. area. Dean has recorded and performed with notable jazz musicians across the globe including Terell Stafford, Steve Turre, Greg Tardy, and many others. Dr. Dean recently published an educational book on jazz harmony titled Kenny Kirkland's Harmonic and Rhythmic ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Christine Jensen, Sonny Clark, Nina Simone and Others

Read "Christine Jensen, Sonny Clark, Nina Simone and Others" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This episode, as usual, goes all over the jazz landscape with current names like Christine Jensen and Marius Neset as well as classic figures of the past such as Sonny Clark and Nina Simone. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry ...

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Article: Album Review

Ray Gallon: Grand Company

Read "Grand Company" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Ray Gallon is a pianist with a rich and complex musical vocabulary. In the company of bassist Ron Carter and percussionist Lewis Nash, he has recorded an album that is filled with technical proficiency and emotional depth as well as a unique artistic voice. Adding to the enjoyment is the sophistication of the recording, which was ...

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News: Recording

Mosaic: Complete Sonny Clark Blue Note Sessions

Mosaic: Complete Sonny Clark Blue Note Sessions

If jazz musicians were among the most beautiful creative “flowers" ever produced by America, then heroin can be likened to a fungus that destroyed a large number of them. Today, it's hard to figure how so much heroin was able to enter the United States after World War II and why its import wasn't stopped more ...

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Article: Live Review

Litchfield Jazz Festival 2023

Read "Litchfield Jazz Festival 2023" reviewed by Paul Reynolds


Litchfield Jazz Festival The Frederick Gunn School Washington CT July 28 to July 30, 2023 It's fitting that a festival set in a location as venerable-sounding as the Litchfield Hills deeply respects tradition. That commitment starts with the music styles it presents. While the Litchfield Jazz Festival isn't averse to going ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Sonny Clark

Jazz Musician of the Day: Sonny Clark

All About Jazz is celebrating Sonny Clark's birthday today! Conrad Yeatis “Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom. Contents Clark was born and raised in Herminie, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town southeast of jny: Pittsburgh. At age 12, he moved to Pittsburgh. When visiting an aunt in California ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

London Crate-Diggers BBE Reveal Lost J-Jazz Gems

Read "London Crate-Diggers BBE Reveal Lost J-Jazz Gems" reviewed by Chris May


In his introduction to The Blue Note Years: The Jazz Photography Of Francis Wolff (Rizzoli, 1995), the late Charlie Lourie reported a remarkable event he had witnessed at the inaugural Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival in 1985. “Where else but in Japan," wrote Lourie, “can one see a field packed with fifteen thousand teens and twentysomethings roar ...

Album

Soho Scene ’58 (Jazz Goes Mod)

Label: Rhythm & Blues Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Eddification; Johnny Comes Lately; Ninth Man; Morning Fun; Mirage; Slidin’; Just For The Boys; Milestones; Cubano Chant; Poinciana; The Seventh Son; Blue Minor (edit);


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