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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 Pittsburgh. At age 12, he moved to Pittsburgh. When visiting an aunt in California at ...
Medeski, Martin and Wood: A Retro Phenomenon for the New Millenium
by Mike Brannon
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in April 1999. No, they're not a law firm, and though they're not yet a household word either, MMW is a trio of formidable sonic integrity and groove. 'Fronted' by Hammond B-3 organist John Medeski, the trio has been described as everything ...
Sonny's Crib
by C. Michael Bailey
From the outset, pianist Sonny Clark's sophomore effort as a leader is crisp, white-hot hard bop. Leading a standard bop trumpet-tenor saxophone quintet (Donald Byrd, John Coltrane), supplemented with trombone (Curtis Fuller), Clark and his most reliable rhythm section of bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Art Taylor carve five dictionary examples (with alternate takes on the ...
Dial "S" for Sonny
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist Sonny Clark was culturally marginalized in much the same way as his contemporary Elmo Hope—both heroin-addicted jazz musicians in the 1950s: at the time, and romantically, a cliche. Both pianists have been sorely lumped into the “Bud Powell school of bop piano" which superficially may seem accurate until one considers the evolutionary continuum of jazz ...
Un Poco Loco: Ornithologie
by Mark Corroto
Somewhere Han Bennink is very jealous of the music making of the trio Un Poco Loco. The master of 'New Dutch Swing' hijinks would give his right crash cymbal to perform music in the manner this trio covers Charlie Parker on Ornithologie. The aptly designated Un Poco Loco ('a bit crazy') trio is trombonist Fidel Fourneyron, ...
Tina Brooks Quintet: The Complete Recordings
by Chris May
Mosaic Records' spring 2020 release The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70, the second of the label's box sets devoted to the copiously recorded (and rightly so) Hank Mobley, prompts thoughts of another of Blue Note's singular hard-bop tenor saxophone stylists. Unlike Mobley, Tina Brooks was woefully under-recorded, making just four albums under his own ...
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Sonny Clark
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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}}
Blue Note Now
By Sonny Clark
Label: Blue Note
Released: 2019
Track listing: Moanin'; Cool Struttin'; Cantaloupe Island; Un Poco Loco; A Night In Tunisia; Midnight Blue; Love For Sale; Song For My Father; Moment's Notice; Candy; Don't Know Why; Liquid Spirit; Here Come The Girls; Carry On; Come To My Door; Novocaine Heart; Black Hole; Bardo; Message Of Hope; Embers;
Preach Brother!
Label: Blue Note
Released: 2019
Track listing: Jeanie-Weenie; Homesick Blues; Dem Tambourines; Camp Meetin'; The Eldorado Shuffle; Pigeon Peas;
Seven Classic Albums
By Sonny Clark
Label: Reel To Reel Music Company
Released: 2019
Track listing: Dial 'S' For Sonny (1957); Dial 'S' For Sonny; Bootin' It; It Could Happen To You; Sonny's Mood; Shoutin' On A Riff; Love Walked In; Sonny's Crib (1957); With A Song In My Heart; Speak Low; Come Rain Or Come Shine; Sonny's Crib; News For Lulu; Sonny Clark Trio (1957); Be-Bop; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Two Bass Hit; Tadd's Delight; Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; I'll Remember April; Cool Struttin' (1958); Cool Struttin'; Blue Minor; Sippin' At Bells; Deep Night; My Conception (1959); Junka; Blues Blue; Minor Meeting (Second Version); Royal Flush (Second Version); Some Clark Bars; My Conception; Sonny Clark Trio (1960); Minor Meeting; Nica; Sonny's Crib; Blues Mambo; Blues Blue; Junka; My Conception; Sonia; Leapin' And Lopin' (1961); Somethin' Special; Deep In A Dream; Melody For C; Eric Walks; Voodoo; Midnight Mambo;
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