Source: Premier Guitar.
Sonny Sharrock, whose guitar playing harnessed the explosiveness and beauty of a summer thunderstorm, recorded Seize the Rainbow in 1987. By then, he’d been doing just that for more than two decades, using his guitar as a prism to reflect his glorious, Technicolor vision of music and life. Along the way, he helped invent free-jazz guitar.
The flautist and bandleader Herbie Mann, who employed Sharrock and his then-wife Linda in the late ’60s, referred to the unfettered guitarist as “my Coltrane.” And, indeed, Sharrock’s own awakening as a musician happened as a teenager when he heard John Coltrane’s performances on the immortal Miles Davis album, Kind of Blue. Although it took until 1966, when he was 26 and playing with Coltrane’s sax-wielding friend Pharoah Sanders, for the light bulb that illuminated his approach to ignite.
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