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169 ESSAY  Ss I first heard Sonny Clark’s piano in the  winter of 1999 in a coffee shop in Ral eigh, North Carolina. The house stereo was playing a jazz record that featured gui- tar, piano, bass, and drums. I am a seri- ous jazz fan, but I’d never heard anything quite like this, a remarkable blend of deep blues and relaxed, ventilated swing. The tattooed and pierced barista showed me the two-CD set, Grant Green: The Com-  plete Quartets with Sonny Clark , recorded by Blue Note Records in December 1961 and January 1962. I knew Green was a guitar- ist from St. Louis, Missouri, who had a floating, hornlike style, but it was Clark’s piano playing that cast a spell. There was a natural, effortless quality to Clark’s right- handed solo runs—the hypnotic trickle of a mountain spring—yet his calm, light touch was haunted by melancholy blues. I began devouring all of Clark’s record- ings, some of which are available only in Japan. From 1957 to 1962, he was docu- mented on thirty-one studio recordings, twenty-one as a sideman and ten as a l eader, before dying of a heroin overdose in Janu- ary 1963 at the age of thirty-one. Most of Clark’s recorded work is as singular as the Sam Stephenson Drugs and Jazz SONNY CLA RK : MELODY AND MELANCHOLY

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