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Sonny & Linda Sharrock
Paradise
Genres: Jazz, Pop, R&B

Track Listings (6) - Disc #1
1. Apollo - Sonny Sharrock, Artis, Dave
2. End of the Rainbow - Sonny Sharrock, Sharrock, Linda
3. Miss Doris - Sonny Sharrock, Sharrock, Sonny
4. 1953 Blue Boogie Children - Sonny Sharrock, Sharrock, Sonny
5. Peaceful - Sonny Sharrock, Sharrock, Linda
6. Gary's Step - Sonny Sharrock, Sharrock, Sonny

CD Details

All Artists: Sonny & Linda Sharrock
Title: Paradise
Members Wishing: 4
Total Copies: 0
Label: Water
Release Date: 11/25/2002
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Jazz, Pop, R&B
Styles: Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Funk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 646315710427, 603497063666

Synopsis

Album Description

In the '60s, Sonny Sharrock was one of the top avant-garde guitarist and Miles Davis, Don Cherry and Herbie Mann all made use of his intense and wild playing. This classic album featuring his wife Linda on vocals was originally released on the Atco label in 1975. The duo's free-from avant-garde guitar and vocals are blended with fusion/electric grooves on Moog, Rhodes piano, Clavinet and percussion. Newly remastered and available for the first time on CD, with detailed liner notes by Byron Coley. Water. 2002.

CD Reviews

Possibly the most essential Sharrock album

P. Freeman | Elizabeth, NJ United States | 10/17/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As weird as that sounds, this might be the one to have. Sure, "Black Woman" and "Monkey-Pockie-Boo" have all the fire and fury that made Sonny's name, but the electric pianos and off-kilter funk grooves here are so bizarre, so unexpected, that they become incredibly compelling. His guitar alternates between plucking and screaming, until it seems like he's inventing No Wave and post-punk on the spot. Plus, chalk me up as a determined Linda Sharrock fan. If Yoko Ono made a record with Keiji Haino, backed by Medeski, Martin & Wood, it might sound something like this, and that would be a damn cool thing indeed."

Excellent

William R. Nicholas | Mahwah, NJ USA | 08/02/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Man, this is one STRANGE album. And I don't say that because of its avant guarde elements. I have listened to so much "out" music, it is second nature.

On Paraidise, Sonny and Linda Sherrock play guitar and sing, respectively, over slick, funky grooves. The couple's work is defiantely going way outside the chord changes.

Nothing wrong with this intrinsically, but this sounds more like they took their favortate groove album and played over it. The mixing of styles feels forced, not organic.

I have listened to Sonny, and Linda, for years, and they have made some great music. Both could make a great R&B album, or a great avant jazz wallpaper shreader, at will. I am sure they could have made a great album combigning both. This just is not it.

Still, the playing is excellent. The grooves are chunky, and I really do respect the impulse at work here. Hence the four star rating.

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