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Sonny Clark

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Year of Birth:1931
Year of death:1963

Biography

(source: wikipedia)

Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark (July 21, 1931 – January 13, 1963) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.
Clark was born and raised in Herminie, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town east of Pittsburgh.Stephenson, Sam (January 13, 2011) "Notes from a Biographer: Sonny Clark". The Paris Review. His parents were originally from Stone Mountain, Georgia. His miner father, Emery Clark, died of a lung disease two weeks after Sonny... more

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