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	Sonny Clark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conrad Yeatis (Sonny) Clark (Born July 21, 1931 in Herminie, Pennsylvania-died January 13, 1963 in New York City) was an American hard bop pianist.
		Strongly influenced by Bud Powell, Sonny Clark is known for his unique touch, sense of melody and complex hard-swinging style.
		A master comper, Sonny Clark was often requested as a sideman by his contemporary jazz musicians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonny_Clark (167 words)

	Sonny Clark -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born in (Click link for more info and facts about Herminie, Pennsylvania) Herminie, Pennsylvania, Conrad Yeatis (Sonny) Clark (July 21, 1931- January 13, 1963) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (Click link for more info and facts about hard bop) hard bop (A person who plays the piano) pianist.
		A (A narcotics addict) drug addict, he died young of a (A narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush) heroin overdose.
		A master (Click link for more info and facts about comper) comper, Sonny Clark was often requested as a sideman by his contemporary jazz musicians.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/So/Sonny_Clark.htm (383 words)

	Amazon.com: Sonny Clark Trio [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sonny Clark never had as big a name as other prominent pianists of the day, but he deserves to be prominently remembered.
		Sonny Clark was the master of bop piano, behind Bud Powell of course.
		Sonny Clark was no joke in his time, despite the obvious similarity to the style of Bud Powell (who hasn't adapted some facet of Bud's style?), Sonny Clark's playing on this album belongs to nobody but himself.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005UMTR?v=glance (1199 words)

	JAM Magazine: February/March 1998 Issue: Profile- Sonny Clark
		One of the prime examples of this phenomenon was Herminie, PA native Sonny Clark.
		Clark's debt to Powell remained constant throughout his career.
		Clark appears with tenor titan Sonny Rollins on 1957's The Sound of Sonny on Prestige.
	www.jazzkc.org /issues/1998-02/sonnyclark.html (991 words)

	CLARK, Sonny : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bud Powell was the definer of jazz piano; the brilliant young Clark simplified and personalized Powell's approach with a soulful drive, but died of a heart attack probably exacerbated by drugs.
		Another trio set '60 was released on Time and Bainbridge, with George Duvivier and Max Roach; yet another, Sonny Clark Memorial Album on Xanadu, was made '54 in Oslo.
		Clark toured and recorded with clarinettist Buddy DeFranco '54- -5; the complete recordings on Verve, and Clark's complete recordings with guitarist Grant Green on Blue Note '61--2, were compiled in boxes by Mosaic.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/c/C144.HTM (277 words)

	Blue Note Records
		Sonny Clark was ubiquitous at Blue Note sessions and led a handful of great albums of his own along the way.
		Sonny Clark was a magnet for talent, his compositions a framework for some remarkable blowing.
		Sonny Clark, although not the most incredibly gifted pianist, had a tendancy to lead these flawless sessions with the very best in sidemen.
	www.bluenote.com /detail.asp?SelectionID=9422 (1424 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 1957 and 1959 sessions that produced the music on My Conception were bookends to Sonny Clark's first Blue Note tenure, a 21 month period that found him in the Blue Note studios for 23 sessions, eight as a leader.
		By 1963, Sonny Clark would be gone, another victim of the saddest cliche in the jazz world, a youthful (Clark was only 31 when he died) heroin overdose.
		Clark, Chambers and Blakey are as fine a rhythm section as Blue Note had, or has ever had, to offer, and Byrd and Mobley are distinctive and original players.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-may00/reviews/review_sonny_clark.html (463 words)

	Sonny Clark MP3 Downloads - Sonny Clark Music Downloads - Sonny Clark Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Clark was an underrated master of the hard bop genre who had a very subtle, artful touch....
		Sonny's conception is quite accessible -- relaxed tempos and blues-inflected improvisations.
		Note: This material is included in Blue Note's 1998 domestic Sonny Clark release entitled Standards.
	www.mp3.com /albums/158707/summary.html (313 words)

	CMT.com : Sonny Clark : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sonny Clark's life was short but it burned with musical intensity.
		Regarded as the quintessential hard bop pianist, Clark never got his due before he passed away in 1963 at the age of 31, despite the fact that it can be argued that he never played a bad recording date either as a sideman or as a leader.
		Clark's classic is regarded as Cool Struttin' but each date he led on Blue Note qualifies as a classic, including his final date, Sonny's Crib with John Coltrane.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/clark_sonny/bio.jhtml (238 words)

	Bagatellen: Sonny Clark - Leapin' And Lopin' (Blue Note)
		Clark sounds completely at one with his instrument here, in the flow -- in the zone -- as if, as I think it is possible to do, he has seduced himself into true discipline.
		Sonny's not working on the best piano in the joint, but its one of his best showings on record.
		but i think sonny's best work aside from leapin' and loapin' has to be on the three grant green blue notes (especially his solo on it ain't necessarily so) and his work with jackie mclean.
	www.bagatellen.com /archives/row/000420.html (1133 words)

	Sonny Clark @ The Jazz Files (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sonny Clark's style as a pianist owed much to Bud Powell and for the duration of his career he has maintained a bop-inspired sound which was much in demand in New York in the mid 50s.
		Moving to New York in 1957, Clark became a fixture on Blue Note, recording several classics as a leader and recording no less than 7 albums in 1957 alone.
		Out of his total output for Blue Note, in particular Dial S for Sonny, Cool Struttin' and Sonny's Crib are noteworthy.
	www.thejazzfiles.com /JazzClark.htm (225 words)

	Cool Struttin'
		Sonny's capacity and present strength as a stimulating, functional jazz pianist has finally been clearly outlined in his recent series of Blue Note LPs, particularly his first three as a leader -- Dial S for Sonny (BLP 1570), Sonny's Crib (BLP 1576) and Sonny Clark Trio (BLP 1579).
		Sonny's earliest influences on his instrument, starting when he was 11 or 12, were Pete Johnson, Art Tatum and Fats Waller.
		Sonny selected the men for this date -- Farmer had been on his Dial S For Sonny album and Paul Chambers had participated in Sonny's Crib.
	member.tripod.com /~hardbop/struttin.html (1203 words)

	Heart of Darkness: Sonny Clark Remembers April (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pianist Sonny Clark was a consummate hard-bopper who made only a handful of recordings as a leader, but appears on literally dozens of albums as a sideman.
		Clark’s death, like the passing of trumpeters Clifford Brown and Booker Little, and that of alto saxophonist Eric Dolphy, left a void in the jazz scene that was difficult to fill.
		Most of Clark’s recordings as a leader were made for the Blue Note label, and all of them were solidly within the hard-bop tradition established by label-mates Art Blakey and Horace Silver.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=699 (702 words)

	Blue Note Records
		Clark swings through three standards and the bop classics "Be Bop", "Two Bass Hit" and "Tadd's Delgiht".
		Reviewer: Bret Hart from Pewaukee, WI Highly underrated, Sonny Clark was Alfred Lion's house pianist of choice in the late 50's to his untimely and tragic death in late '63.
		This set proves Sonny's talent by putting him in front by himself, backed up by THE rhythm section of the time...from "Be-Bop" to "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise"(my favorite version), Clark keeps the groove going, capping it all off with his solo masterpiece "I'll Remeber April".
	www.bluenote.com /detail.asp?SelectionID=10117 (530 words)

	SoundStage! Vinyl Word - Found On Vinyl: Johnny Griffin, Lee Morgan, and Sonny Clark (7/2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Clark never received quite the public attention his work merited before he passed away in 1963 at the far-too-young age of 31.
		Here, in his debut on Blue Note, Clark on piano is showcased with a group of his peers.
		The piano style of Clark compared to that of Wynton Kelly is as instructive as it is enjoyable.
	www.soundstage.com /vinyl/vinyl200507.htm (1285 words)

	CD Review of Sonny Clark Trio - Sonny Clark Trio on Audio Fidelity @ jazzreview.com
		Bop pianist Sonny Clark had a short but impressive career.
		On “Sonny’s Crip,” the pianist demonstrates his fleet-finger facility on an original that cooks on simmer, but cooks nonetheless.
		For those new to Sonny Clark, you could do not better than to start here.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=4694 (374 words)

	Sonny Clark \| Standards
		In the early 1960s, pianist Sonny Clark (1931-1963) and Guitarist Grant Green (1931-1979) were the top-drawer house musicians in the Blue Note stable.
		Sonny Clark's Standards anthologizes music that was either only released as Blue Note singles internationally or in Japan as an LP.
		Clark's performance is low-key and reminds one of Red Garland's block chording behind Miles a few years earlier.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=2845 (567 words)

	Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio - Jazzmatazz review
		Clark had a percussive attack and an advanced harmonic conception.
		The compositions on the Sonny Clark Trio, all by Clark, have held up quite well.
		This issue of the Sonny Clark Trio is the first on CD and includes the eight master takes, plus five alternate takes.
	home.att.net /~jazzmatazz/reviews/03/r0308e.html (295 words)

	Sonny Clark: Biography
		Like Fats Navarro and Charlie Parker before him, Sonny Clark's life was short but it burned with musical intensity.
		His work with the great clarinetist has been documented in full in a Mosaic set that is now sadly out of print.
		And though commercial success always eluded him, he was in demand as a sideman and played dozens of Alfred Lion-produced dates, including Tina Brooks' Minor Move.
	afgen.com /sonny_clark.html (191 words)

	Grant Green \| The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark
		Just like rice and beans, Grant Green and Sonny Clark created a synergy that was more than the sum of its parts.
		The elegant, laid-back style that characterizes these recordings was the one in which both Green and Clark seemed most comfortable, and it shows.
		Clark, like Green, is a master of understatement and uses this to full advantage by teasing the listener with half-finished motifs drenched with the blues.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r1201_100.htm (492 words)

	SONNY CLARK: DAIL "S" FOR SONNY MONO - BN-1570 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dial "S" for Sonny, Sonny Clark first session for Blue Note Records and his first session as a leader, is a terrific set of laidback bop, highlighted by Sonny Clark liquid, swinging solos.
		Sonny Clark leads a first-rate group -- Art Farmer (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Wilbur Ware (bass), Louis Hayes (drums) -- through four originals and two standards, balancing the selections between swinging bop and reflective ballads.
		There are traces of Bud Powell in Sonny Clark style, but he's beginning to come into his own, developing a style that's alternately edgy and charmingly relaxed.
	www.classicrecs.com /catalog/store/detail.cfm?sku=BN-1570 (182 words)

	SONNY CLARK - Discography
		Note: Titles which are underscored indicate original compositions by Sonny Clark.
		Clark (p), Charles (vibes), Gray (ts), Frank Morgan (as), Dick Nivison (b), Lawrence Marable (d).
		Like Sonny Clark, he was a fine pianist born in a small, Pennsylvania coal mining town.
	www.leebloom.com /discography.htm (2397 words)

	Sonny Clark \| My Conception. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the late 50s and early 60s Sonny Clark functioned as the de facto house pianist for the fabled Blue Note label.
		As a result, Sonny’s output as a leader, Dial S for Sonny, Sonny's Crib, Leapin’ and Lopin’, Cool Struttin' are prime examples, was rather meager.
		The CD features Sonny working out on eight original compositions (there are two versions of Minor Meeting) with illustrious guests Donald Byrd (trumpet), Hank Mobley (tenor), Paul Chambers (bass), Clifford Jordan (tenor), Kenny Burrell (guitar) and drummers Art Blakey and Pete La Roca.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r0400_157.htm (212 words)

	Grant Green : The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mosaic released a four-disc box set titled The Complete Blue Note With Sonny Clark in 1991, rounding up everything that the guitarist and pianist recorded together between 1961 and 1962.
		Blue Note's 1997 version of the set, The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark, trims Mosaic's collection by two discs, offering only the quartet sessions (the Ike Quebec sessions, Born to Be Blue and Blue and Sentimental, are available on individual discs).
		Grant and Clark's mastery is subtle -- the music is so enjoyable, you may not notice the deftness of their improvisation and technique -- but that invests the music with the grace, style, and emotion that distinguishes The Complete Quartets.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,272235,00.html?src=search (311 words)

	Sonny Clark Quartet - Spokane Jazz - Benham Audiophile Recordings - Page 4
		In July, 2000, Sandpoint classical guitarist Leon Atkinson said he was producing a jazz CD of the Sonny Clark Quartet.
		Musicians included Sonny Clark, saxophone; Arnie Curruthers, piano; Noel Waters, bass; and Daniel Cox, drums.
		Two Neumann U-87's were used for the piano with lid slightly open; two Marshall MXL-2003's were each used for the saxophone and bass; and two AKG C-3000's were used for drums along with a Audio-technica ATM-25 for kick drum.
	www.icehouse.net /john_benham/recording-4.htm (154 words)

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		While the Clark album is more conservative it has some very wonderful soloing (particularly in Nicely).
		Anyway, I think one of the most interesting things for me about this album is that Zorn hasn't fully developed his set of 'licks' yet and so we get some quite original playing from him, while later on Masada and a few other things it can get quite samey...
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/zorn-list/archive/v03.n699 (2750 words)

	Cleburne News - Mr. and Mrs. Derrick Sonny Clark
		Rebecca Marie Haynes and Derrick Sonny Clark, were united in marriage on June 26.
		A water garden feature, at the home of the groom's parents, was the setting for the double ring ceremony, preformed by Rev. Grover Robinson.
		The bride requested, best man Skyler Clark and groomsman Jason Clark, brothers of the groom, to escort photos of her parents to their place in honor, where she placed white roses in their memory.
	www.dailyhome.com /lifestyle/2004/cn-brides-0729-0-4g29j0205.htm (173 words)

	Rhapsody Music: Download, Listen, Play & Burn Sonny Clark
		An extraordinary jazz pianist, Sonny Clark worked with Buddy DeFranco and Hank Mobley before succombing to drugs at age 31.
		The 1950s saw the height of Sonny Clark's Bop piano career before his untimely death at thirty-one.
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	www.real.com /dmm/rhapsody/artist/?artistid=6285 (87 words)

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