BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Warren Harding Sharrock
Description: Guitarist, USA
Known For: Album – 1969 – “Super nova “with Wayne Shorter
Instruments: Guitar
Music Styles: Jazz
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 27th August 1940
Location Born: United States of America
Date Died: 26th May 1994
Location Died: Ossining, New York, United States of America
Cause Of Death: Heart attack
Memorial: Sharrock died unexpectedly of a heart attack in his hometown of Ossining, New York, aged 53.
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Sonny Sharrack
An American jazz guitarist.
Sharrock began his musical career singing doo wop in his teen years. He collaborated with Pharoah Sanders and Alexander Solla in the late 1960s
He was once married to singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he sometimes recorded and performed.
One of few guitarists in the first wave of free jazz in the 1960s.
Jazz rock guitarist, member of fifties vocal group “The Echoes”
also worked with “Herbie Mann”.
Three albums under Sharrock’s name were released in the late ’60s through the mid-’70s.
“Black Woman”
“Monkey-Pockie-Boo”
“Paradise”
After the release of Paradise, Sharrock was semi-retired for much of the 1970s, undergoing a divorce from wife/occasional collaborator Linda in 1978.
In 1994, Sharrock died unexpectedly of a heart attack in his hometown of Ossining, New York, just as he was on the verge of signing the first major label deal in his entire career. He was 53.
Albums include.
1966: Tauhid
1968: Stone flutes
1969: Izipho Zam
1969: Super nova
1969: Live at the Whisky A Go Go
1969: Memphis Underground
1969: Black Woman
1970: A Tribute to Jack Johnson and The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions
1970: Monkey-Pockie-Boo
1975: Paradise
1982: Dance with me Montana
1986: Guitar
1986: Last Exit
1986: Last Exit, Live in Koln
1987: Seize the Rainbow
1987: Last Exit, cassette recordings (with Last Exit)
1988: Machine Gun (with Machine Gun)
1988: Iron path (with Last Exit)
1989: No Material (with Ginger Baker)
1989: Live in New York
1990: Highlife
1991: Faith Moves (duo with Nicky Skopelitis)
1991: Ask the Ages
1996: Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1996: Into Another Light