Genres Jazz fusion Active until 1970 | Years active 1969 – 1970 Genre Jazz fusion | |
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Origin Boston, Massachusetts, United States Albums ...Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop, 1969, The Stark Reality Discover Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop, Now Members Monty Stark, John Abercrombie, Vinnie Johnson, Carl Atkins, Phil Morrison Record labels Stones Throw Records, Now-Again Records Similar Koushik, Dudley Perkins, Karl Hector & The Malcouns, The Heliocentrics, Funkaho | ||
Stark reality 1969 full album
Stark Reality was an American jazz/rock fusion band most famous for their 1970 album The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop, a heavily-improvised reinvention of a 1958 children's album by songwriter Hoagy Carmichael, to be used for the show Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop which aired on PBS. The album was re-released by Stones Throw in 2003. Previously unreleased songs were released by Now-Again Records as a compilation called 1969. Now-Again Records reissued the group's entire catalog again in 2013.
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Formed in Boston, Massachusetts, most of the band's members attended the Berklee College of Music.
Members
Songs
All You Need to Make MusicNow · 2003
Junkman's SongDiscovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop · 1970
Too Much TendernessNow · 2003
References
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