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Sonny Sharrock
Sonny Sharrock
American guitarist (1940-1995)
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Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
American musician
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Ronald Shannon Jackson
Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
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Peter Brötzmann
Peter Brötzmann
German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
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Praxis
Praxis
experimental rock band led by Bill Laswell and Buckethead
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Massacre
Massacre
American experimental rock band
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Blind Idiot God
Blind Idiot God
band
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Material
Material
American band led by Bill Laswell
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Jamaaladeen Tacuma
American musician
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Can
Can
German experimental rock band
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Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
American jazz and classical music pianist and composer
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Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth
English guitarist and composer
12
Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton
American songwriter, guitarist, singer & producer
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Supersilent
Supersilent
Norwegian band that plays avant-garde music
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Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
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Didier Malherbe
Didier Malherbe
French saxophonist
16
The Icicle Works
The Icicle Works
British band
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Kenny Wheeler
Kenny Wheeler
Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
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Chris Haskett
Chris Haskett
guitarist
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Jamie Muir
Jamie Muir
British musician
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Controlled Bleeding
Controlled Bleeding
American band
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Weather Report
Weather Report
American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s
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Tony Williams
Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
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Melvin Gibbs
Melvin Gibbs
musician
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Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd.
English rock band
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Jonas Hellborg
Jonas Hellborg
Swedish musician
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Charnett Moffett
Charnett Moffett
American musician
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The Golden Palominos
The Golden Palominos
American alternative rock band
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Rashied Ali
Rashied Ali
American jazz musician
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Mega City Four
Mega City Four
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Sky
Sky
British/Australian instrumental group
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David Sylvian
David Sylvian
English recording artist; singer-songwriter, musician
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Medeski Martin & Wood
Medeski Martin & Wood
American jazz trio
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Buckethead
Buckethead
American musician and songwriter
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Mick Harris
Mick Harris
British musician
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Rollins Band
Rollins Band
American punk rock band
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Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce
Scottish musician, bassist of Cream
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Tom Cora
Tom Cora
American cellist and composer
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Dave Holland
Dave Holland
British musician
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Karl Berger
Karl Berger
German jazz vibraphonist, pianist and composer
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Jim Hall
Jim Hall
American jazz guitarist, composer
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Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
American jazz musician
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Level 42
Level 42
English jazz-funk band
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Nurse With Wound
Nurse With Wound
British experimental band
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John Martyn
John Martyn
British singer-songwriter and guitarist
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King Crimson
King Crimson
British progressive rock band
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Nicky Skopelitis
Nicky Skopelitis
American guitarist
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Ozric Tentacles
Ozric Tentacles
English instrumental rock band
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Borbetomagus
Borbetomagus
American free jazz / noise group
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Lenny Breau
Lenny Breau
Canadian musician
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Tokyo Blade
Tokyo Blade
English heavy metal band
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Akira Sakata
Akira Sakata
Japanese jazz saxophonist, actor, researcher (1945-)
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Gino D'Auri
Gino D'Auri
Italian flamenco, fusion and classical guitarist
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Evan Parker
Evan Parker
English saxophonist
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Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
band
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Joe Harriott
Joe Harriott
Jamaican jazz musician
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Yōsuke Yamashita
Yōsuke Yamashita
Japanese jazz pianist, composer, author (1942-)
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Last Exit was a free jazz supergroup composed of electric guitarist Sonny Sharrock, drummer/occasional vocalist Ronald Shannon Jackson, saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, and bass guitarist Bill Laswell. They were active from 1986 to the early 1990s, releasing primarily live albums recorded in Europe. Sharrock's death in 1994 caused the dissolution of the band, though touring had not occurred for several years before his demise. The band is unrelated to the 1970s British jazz fusion band of the same name.