Elliott Sharp

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
A 30-year veteran of the "downtown" experimental music scene, guitarist and composer Elliott Sharp recently recorded an album of music created by another complex musical mind: Thelonious Monk. Sharp performs live in our studio and talks about "Binibon," a work of musical theater based on an infamous murder in New York’s East Village. Sharp and his collaborator, writer Jack Womack, perform "Binibon" at Roulette on Saturday, March 31 at 8:30.

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