Sonny Sharrock, born
Warren Harding Sharrock in Ossining,
NY USA, was a leading
guitarist in the
Avant-Guard/
Free Jazz movement. His adventurous and wild style never achived much
commercial success, however. Sharrock
passed away at the age of 53 in
1996.
Sharrock worked with Pharoah Sanders and, uncredited, on Miles Davis' Jack Johnson album, and was perhaps most visible in Herbie Mann's band.
The Everything crowd may know Sharrock better as a guitarist on Space Ghost Coast to Coast. SGC2C had a memorial show shortly after his death that was really an excuse by the staff to showcase about 15 min. of some of Sharrock's driving, chaotic explorations.