Sonny Clark – Dial "S" For Sonny LP Japanese Import Hank Mobley RE 1977 RVG Mono

Description: Sonny Clark – Dial "S" For Sonny LP Japanese Import RE 1977 RVG Mono Japanese insert This Japanese pressing sounds amazing. Essencial Recorded July 21, 1957. Blue Note Masterpiece Selection 150 On a hot Sunday, July 21, 1957 (oddly enough, Sonny's 26th birthday), our pianist walked into Rudy Van Gelder's modest studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, accompanied by Art Farmer on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Hank Mobley on tenor saxophone, Wilbur Ware on bass and Louis Hayes on drums, excellent musicians carefully chosen and veterans of Blue Note, to record the session that would later be published (October 1957) under the title of "Dial "S" For Sonny”. (BLP 1570).Sonny Clark was born in Pittsburgh on July 21, 1931 and began studying piano when he was four years old. He became interested in jazz around 1945 when he heard the Basie and Ellington bands through the radio and Fats Waller and Art Tatum records. Sonny names Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk as his most important influences. Clark's fingers on the piano keys created some of the favorite sounds of many modern jazz lovers.This is his first studio album as a leader, and we find Clark full of youthful enthusiasm for his rapidly emerging talent as his head is abuzz with ideas, staying grounded and in tune with the other musicians, absolutely owning the show.Clark shows what he learned from Bud Powell and then takes music in surprising directions, creating soulful music in timeless numbers like "Booting 'It," "Sonny's Mood" and "Shoutin' On A Riff."Clark's brilliance was so powerful that every note he played is sought after by collectors despite remaining a heavily underrated musician today. No jazz pianist was more steeped in blues than Clark. But even among his many classic recordings, “Dial “S” For Sonny” is something very special.Sonny plays with great freedom of time and form, never missing the line of the song. He shows much creativity in his blues-infused playing with an economy of notes that makes his music more effective as an example of a musician whose roots are firmly rooted in the jazz tradition.A strong bluesy undercurrent can be detected throughout his performance.With this set, Sonny secured his position as a major presence at Blue Note Records, where he played a dominant role as sideman and leader for two brief but intense stretches (1957-58 and 1961-62), an intense and rewarding period of activity in the studio before Clark died of a heroin overdose somewhere in New York City on January 13, 1963. He was thirty-one years old.

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