Sonny Clark
USA
Born: 21 July 1931
Died: 13 January 1963
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Hard Bop, Post-Bop, Modal Music, West Coast Jazz, Cool, Mainstream Jazz, New Orleans/Classic Jazz
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Like Fats Navarro and Charlie Parker before him, Sonny Clark's life was short but it burned with musical intensity. Influenced deeply by Bud Powell, Clark nonetheless developed an intricate and hard-swinging harmonic sensibility that was full of nuance and detail. 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. Known mainly for seven records on the Blue Note...
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