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| Free-Jazz Guitar Pioneer to Be Honored by Hometown Free-Jazz Pioneer, Miles Davis Sideman Warren "Sonny" Sharrock Gets His Due, Oct. 2, in Ceremony Conducted by Bill Hanauer, Mayor, Village of Ossining; Special Performance by Sons of Sharrock. 2010 Marks What Would Have Been Master Guitarist's 70th Birthday WHAT: The Village of Ossining, in conjunction with the family and friends of the late, great guitar legend Warren "Sonny" Sharrock (August 27, 1940—May 26, 1994), is pleased to announce that South Malcolm Street in Ossining, NY will be renamed "Sonny Sharrock Way, " in a ceremony presided over by Bill Hanauer, Mayor, Village of Ossining, with a special performance by Sons of Sharrock, a newly formed reportorial band under the direction of Sharrock's cousin and former collaborator Kendall Buchanan. WHEN: Saturday, October 2, 3PM WHERE: Corner of South Malcolm Street and Hamilton Avenue, Ossining, NY 10562 WHY YOU SHOULD GO: Hailed as the father of free-jazz guitar by The New York Times, Sonny Sharrock carved his own unique niche in the world of jazz by adapting the free-form improvisational style pioneered by 1960s jazz horn players to the guitar. One of the first jazz guitarists to incorporate dissonance, distortion, feedback, and chord clusters into his playing style, he revolutionized jazz guitar concepts by developing an abstract, passionate, and truly original instrumental voice in his work with Miles Davis, Bill Cosby, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Mann, Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell, and more. His string-breaking, rule-shattering, free-for-all improvising influenced two generations of guitarists from jazz masters Nicky Skopelitis, Bill Frisell and Ben Monder to rockers Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Vernon Reid and Pearl Jam's Mike McCready. "My view of improvisation is very personal, " Sharrock wrote in Guitar Player magazine. "It's full of love, anger, truth, lies, and, in the end (I hope), sense." write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Jazz News :: home page |