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Article: Reassessing
Dial "S" for Sonny
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist Sonny Clark was culturally marginalized in much the same way as his contemporary Elmo Hopeboth 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 ...