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Sonny Sharrock

guitar · 1940–1994 · Ossining

One of the few guitarists of the first free jazz wave of the 1960s, recognized for his dense chords, feedback and saturated lines close to the saxophone. Back in the 1980s with Bill Laswell, he founded Last Exit and recorded several albums under his own name until his death.

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