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Elliott Sharp

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Biography

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Elliott Sharp began playing the piano at six. According to Sharp, he was performing concerts by age eight. Sharp claims that his parents wanted him to be both a concert pianist and a scientist. He gave up piano, first in favor of the clarinet and then the guitar. His interest in science led him to build his own effects boxes for the instrument. He became intrigued with all types of experimental music, from contemporary classical to free jazz and sophisticated rock. Sharp studied anthropology at Cornell, where he played in a band and took an electronics class with synthesizer inventor Robert Moog. At Bard College he studied with free jazz pioneer Roswell Rudd (future Lounge Lizards John and Evan Lurie were classmates). He went to graduate school in Buffalo, where his academic advisor was Morton Feldman. He moved permanently to New York City in 1979, where he played gigs at various underground performance spaces, including the notorious Mudd Club. In the '80s Sharp became a major figure on the downtown New York experimental music scene, collaborating with many of it's most prominent players, including John Zorn, Wayne Horvitz, Bobby Previte, and Butch Morris. Over the years, Sharp has led his own bands more often than not. His music draws upon the wide range of his influences, from Coltrane to Zappa to Xennakis and beyond. An improviser at heart, Sharp's compositions tend to be quite loose, allowing plenty of room for the musicians to roam. Among his recent projects is the blues/hardcore/free jazz hybrid Terraplane, with bassist Dave Hofstra, saxophonist Sam Furnace, and drummer Sim.

Title: Q-Mix

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Electronica, Jazz

Title: Base

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Alternative

Title: Guitars

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Octal: Book Four

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Dyners Club

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Jazz, Rock

Title: Autoboot

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Rock, Punk Rock

Title: Rhythms And Blues

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Momentum Anomaly

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Jazz, Rock

Title: Octal: Book One

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Isosceles

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Hydrophon

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Electronica, Jazz, Rock

Title: 97 Is 97

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Quadrature

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Electronica, Jazz

Title: Sakuraza

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Incident

Artist: Elliott Sharp

Genre: Jazz, Rock

Collections

Featuring albums

Title: Guitars

Artist: Andrea Centazzo

Genre: Jazz, Alternative

Title: Crossing the Waters

Artist: Lucas Niggli

Genre: Jazz

Title: High Noon

Artist: Christian Marclay

Genre: Jazz, Rock

Title: Mumbo Jumbo

Artist: Jim Staley

Genre: Electronica, Jazz

Title: Alloy

Artist: Phonon

Genre: Experimental

Title: New York 95

Artist: Hubert Sumlin

Genre: Blues

Title: Explorations 51

Artist: Payton MacDonald

Genre: Jazz

Genres