Stark Reality
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| Origin | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Genres | Jazz fusion |
| Years active | 1969 – 1970 |
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.
Formed in Boston, Massachusetts, most of the band's members attended the Berklee College of Music.
Members
- Monty Stark - vibraphone
- Phil Morrison - bass
- Carl Atkins - saxophone
- John Abercrombie - guitar
- Vinnie Johnson - drums
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