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 ...

Elliott Sharp is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer. A key figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years, Sharp has released over ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a head-on collision in my brain on Christmas Eve involving two songs, one originally sung in Latin dating back more than 1,200 years, and the other 45 years old, so of its time and milieu, ...

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, ...

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: ...