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Jazz File

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Detour Ahead. 4: Sonny Sharrock
Charles Shaar Murray concludes his series on influential jazz guitarists. Sonny Sharrock was one of the greatest electric guitarists in the avant-garde field, developing in the 1960s a technique on the guitar equivalent to the innovations being made by saxophonists such as Albert Ayier and John Coltrane.

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Unknown:
Charles Shaar Murray
Guitarists:
Sonny Sharrock
Unknown:
Albert Ayier
Unknown:
John Coltrane.
Source: Radio Times

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