Jazz Articles about Elliott Sharp

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Elliott Sharp: Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!

by Mark Corroto
October 13, 2006

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, electronics, orchestral music and soundtracks. His interests and imagination are never exceeded by his grasp. That's why his take on five classic ...

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Elliott Sharp: String Quartets: 1986-1996

by Farrell Lowe
March 16, 2003

One of the epigrams from composer Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies notes that “repetition is a form of change" and that sort of idea is at the core of E#'s concepts in relation to this recording of string quartets--but it is a form of repetition that mutates like an old Delta blues. Consider the guitar work of Mance Lipscomb. Even though he's using a somewhat rigid form of "the blues," his guitar and vocal work cascades around the signposts of that ...

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Elliott Sharp's "Terraplane": Blues For Next

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 2001

Blues For Next is the newly released two CD set by New York City downtown scene guitar god Elliott Sharp, as this recording bespeaks a bit of a diversion from the guitarist’s usual blend consisting of hard-core prog-rock/modern jazz and EFX based stylizations. On disc one, subtitled “Plus”, the guitarist utilizes the vocal talents of Eric Mingus and Dean Bowman while disc two signifies the “Quartet” and vocal-less part of the presentation.

Unfortunately, the bluesy proceedings on the first disc ...

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Elliott Sharp: Tectonics: Errata

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 1999

Few avant-garde guitarists have made as much of a statement as Elliott Sharp. In his many projects he has worked within rock, blues, free jazz, electronica, and modern classical idioms. But his great talent (and primary intent here, I suppose) is to build unexpected combinations from these elements. His solo Tectonics project, now in its third reincarnation, approaches music using samplers and sequencers as well as guitar and saxophone. (And it's a lot more effective than, for example, his drum&bass ...