Multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp expresses music through his own personal filter. He does this in the postmodern spirit: instead of assembling a collection of musical ideals, he adopts musical ...

The musical meeting of innovative guitarists Elliott Sharp and Scott Fields came by coincidence. Both were aware of each other's work for many years, but the opportunity of playing as a duo never ...

Thelonious Monk’s shadow still looms large in the music world some 35 years after his death. It wasn’t until guitarist Elliott Sharp studied at Bard College in the early ’70s that he really got to ...

In the 1980s, Elliott Sharp was the height of New York City cool, a central part of that town's experimental music scene. His creations were inspired by advanced mathematical concepts. He tuned his ...

Free improvisation began as an attempt to discard pre-existing genres and ended up as a genre itself. One of its fascinations though is the way it can reinvent other types of music from the ground up, ...

On Friday, world-famous avant-garde musicians Elliott Sharp and Rainer Jancis performed a unique concert in Võru to introduce their new joint album "Uhhuu." The new joint album "Uhhuu," by Elliott ...

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With Terraplane, the guitarist transforms from New York avant-garde aesthete to down-and-dirty Chicago bluesman. In an interview with NPR's Jacki... Elliott Sharp: 'Blues Is A Feeling' Elliott Sharp: ...