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Wolfgang Puschnig
Wolfgang Puschnig
Austrian saxophonist
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Sonny Sharrock
Sonny Sharrock
American guitarist (1940-1995)
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Michael Mantler
Michael Mantler
Austrian musician
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Kenny Wheeler
Kenny Wheeler
Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
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Alan Silva
Alan Silva
American musician
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Sirone
Sirone
American musician
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Mani Neumeier
Mani Neumeier
German rock musician, free jazz-drummer artist, and frontman
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Evan Parker
Evan Parker
English saxophonist
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Barry Guy
Barry Guy
British musician
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Dave Holland
Dave Holland
British musician
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Jamaaladeen Tacuma
American musician
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Craig Taborn
Craig Taborn
American musician
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Dave Burrell
Dave Burrell
American musician
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Billy Higgins
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
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Charnett Moffett
Charnett Moffett
American musician
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Paul Rutherford
Paul Rutherford
English free improvising trombonist
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Albert Mangelsdorff
Albert Mangelsdorff
German jazz trombonist
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Peter Erskine
Peter Erskine
American musician
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Derek Bailey
Derek Bailey
British guitarist
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Sam Rivers
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
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Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
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Tom Varner
Tom Varner
American musician
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Howard Johnson
Howard Johnson
American musician
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John Abercrombie
John Abercrombie
American jazz guitarist
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Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp
American musician
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Paul Bley
Paul Bley
Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist
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Jeanne Lee
Jeanne Lee
American singer
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Joëlle Léandre
Joëlle Léandre
French double bassist, vocalist and composer
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Hélène Breschand
Hélène Breschand
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Dave Liebman
Dave Liebman
American jazz composer, saxophonist and flautist
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Clifford Thornton
Clifford Thornton
American musician
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Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell
American guitarist
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Peter Brötzmann
Peter Brötzmann
German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
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Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy
American jazz musician; saxophonist, composer
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Milford Graves
Milford Graves
American jazz drummer and percussionist
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Dorothy Ashby
Dorothy Ashby
American jazz harpist
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John Hicks
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
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Gene Bertoncini
Gene Bertoncini
American jazz guitarist
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Tony Williams
Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
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Mark Nauseef
Mark Nauseef
musician
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Dana Hall
Dana Hall
Jazz drummer
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Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett
British pianist
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Jim Hall
Jim Hall
American jazz guitarist, composer
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Idris Muhammad
Idris Muhammad
American drummer
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John Zorn
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
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John Coltrane
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
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Melba Liston
Melba Liston
American jazz trombonist, musical arranger, and composer
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Modern Jazz Quartet
Modern Jazz Quartet
American jazz ensemble
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Woody Shaw
Woody Shaw
American musician
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Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli
French jazz violinist
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Buster Williams
Buster Williams
American musician
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Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
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Airto Moreira
Airto Moreira
Brazilian musician
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Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer (1940-1993)
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Art Farmer
Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
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Clare Fischer
Clare Fischer
American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader
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Miles Davis
Miles Davis
American jazz musician (1926-1991)
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Sun Ra
Sun Ra
American jazz composer and bandleader (1914-1993)
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Steve Morse
Steve Morse
American guitarist and composer
Linda Sharrock
American singer

Linda Sharrock

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Linda Sharrock (also Lynda Sharrock) (born Linda Chambers, April 2, 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz singer.

Sharrock sang in church choirs as a child. Interested in both folk music and jazz, she studied art while in college and became interested in avant garde music. She performed with Pharoah Sanders in the mid-1960s; late in 1966 she married Sonny Sharrock and began using the spelling Lynda professionally. She worked with him and Sanders into the early 1970s, as well as with Herbie Mann (1969–70). One of her best-known performances is on the 1969 Sonny Sharrock album Black Woman, released on Vortex Records. She toured Istanbul in 1973 and recorded with Joe Bonner in 1974. She divorced Sharrock in 1978 and returned to using "Linda", though she kept his surname. She moved to Vienna, where she worked with Franz Koglmann, Eric Watson, and Wolfgang Puschnig well into the 1990s. She worked with ensembles such as the Pat Brothers, Red Sun, and AM4 in the 1980s, and with Harry Pepl in 1992.

After suffering a stroke in 2009 which left her partially disabled and aphasic, she briefly withdrew from the scene before returning in 2012. Since then she has appeared and recorded in France, Austria, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Slovenia, with various ensembles under the Linda Sharrock Network label.