![]() ![]() ![]() The recent reissue from 4 Men With Beards boasts 180gm vinyl and liner notes by Byron Coley. Produced by Herbie Mann and featuring an all-star cast of free-jazz musicians (Dave Burrell on piano, Milford Graves on percussion, Teddy Daniel on trumpet, and Norris Jones on bass) Black Woman is a crazily important record. It was in 1969 that Sharrock delivered Black Woman, a daring solo debut, with his beautiful wife Linda on vocals. Check him out, for instance, in "Hold On, I'm Coming," on Mann's Memphis Underground. It's a thrill to hear Sharrock's spiraling, searing guitar riffs writhe like demons within some otherwise innocuous tracks. Also around that time, Sharrock, like many of the more adventurous jazz musicians of the era, kept busy by touring and recording with the hairy-chested flautist, Herbie Mann. ![]() In a 1989 interview with WKCR's Ben Ratliff, Sonny dismissed Paradise as being "not a good album," and attributed the album's failure to his own incompetence as a bandleader.Īs a sideman, Sonny Sharrock appeared on three records in 1966: Pharaoh Sanders's Tauhid, Marzette Watts's eponymous album, and Byard Lancaster's It's Not Up To Us. Sonny Sharrock, however, did not feel the same. One of the records we listened to at the Monkeyhaus last week was Sonny & Linda Sharrock's Paradisea powerfully uplifting record, in my opinion.
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