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Conrad Yeatis " Sonny " Clark (July 21, 1931 – January 13, 1963) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom. [1] Early life. Clark was born and raised in Herminie, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town east of Pittsburgh. [2] . His parents were originally from Stone Mountain, Georgia. [2] .
Apr 5, 2020 · Softly as in a Morning Sunrise - Sonny Clark Trio. Sonny Clark (p) ソニー・クラーク Paul Chambers (b) ポール・チェンバーズ Philly Joe Jones (d) フィリー・ジョー ...
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Jan 5, 2022 · A quintessential example of hard bop, ‘Cool Struttin’’ found pianist Sonny Clark putting Blue Note’s pioneering modern jazz on the map.
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Sonny Clark (born 21 July 1931, Herminie, Pennsylvania, USA - died 13 January 1963 in New York City, New York, USA) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom. He recorded only nine records as a leader for the legendary Blue Note label, but Sonny Clark was practically the label's house pianist, a highly ...
Aug 16, 2023 · Jazz pianist Sonny Clark grew up in and around Pittsburgh and made his first recordings in LA during the heyday of cool jazz in the 1950s. He later moved to New York in 1957, where...
Jan 13, 2011 · Forty-eight years ago today, the pianist Conrad Yeatis “Sonny” Clark died of a heroin overdose in a shooting gallery somewhere in New York City. He was thirty-one. The previous two nights—January 11 and 12, 1963—he had played piano at Junior’s Bar on the ground floor of the Alvin Hotel on the northwest corner of Fifty ...