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Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Misterioso; Well You Needn't; Bemsha Swing; Round Midnight;
Epistrophy.
Elliott Sharp: Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!
by C. Michael Bailey
Polymath musician Elliott Sharp fears nothing creatively. He will as readily dismantle the blues into its atomic components as he will Western European classical music. Or jazz, for that matter. On Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!, Sharp attempts the impossible, that is: a post-modern dissection of five Thelonious Monk pieces, played on guitar no less. Ex vivo ...
Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Misterioso; Well You Needn't; Bemsha Swing; Round Midnight; Epistrophy.
Elliott Sharp: Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!
by Elliott Simon
A guitarist with a mastery of his instrument's fretboard, Elliott Sharp goes beyond pedestrian picking and strumming for a percussive and pianistic effect that has to be seen to be believed. In fact, Sharp's approach to his instrument is in many ways more reminiscent of a pianist than a guitarist. It is no surprise, then, that ...
Elliott Sharp: Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!
by Mark Corroto
Elliott Sharp might have once been described as a skinny kid from Cleveland, Ohio who has come to steal your women and drink your beer. But that, my friends, was a long time ago. A graduate of the New York Downtown scene of the 1980s and 1990s, Sharp has branched out into string quartets, hard-core blues, ...