This is FRESH AIR. Jazz pianist Sonny Clark grew up in and around Pittsburgh and made his first recordings in LA during the heyday of cool jazz in the 1950s. He later moved to New York in 1957, where ...

Pianist Sonny Clark recorded five albums with tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley. Three were Mobley leadership sessions and two were led by Clark. They united on Hank Mobley (in June 1957), Dial S for ...

Sonny's Crib is a very pleasing recording from the sadly overlooked pianist Sonny Clark that works very well as a representative piece of the Blue Note catalogue at the time, framing all the ...

I’m grateful to my former colleague Thessaly La Force, of the Paris Review, for calling my attention to an extraordinary post on that magazine’s Web site: a brief, terribly sad, powerfully evocative ...

Sam Stephenson, who is doing remarkable research on the life of the short-lived jazz pianist and composer Sonny Clark, posts at the Jazz Loft Project today on the occasion of Clark’s birthday; he died ...

January 6, 2009 • From before bebop to the present day, some of the best jazz albums of all time have been issued by Blue Note Records. The label celebrates its 70th anniversary this week, and to ...