Ask the Ages

Infobox Album
Name = Ask the Ages
Type = Album
Artist = Sonny Sharrock


Released = 1991
Recorded =
Genre = Avant-garde jazz
Free Jazz Post-bop
Length = 45:18
Label = Axiom Records
Producer = Bill Laswell &
Sonny Sharrock
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:os420rjar48b link]
Last album = "Highlife (1990)
This album = "Ask the Ages"
(1991)
Next album = "Space Ghost Coast to Coast"
(1996)

"Ask the Ages" (1991) was the last album released by jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock before his death in 1994 (though posthumously released albums followed).

Track listing

#"Promises Kept" –9:43
#"Who Does She Hope to Be?" –4:41
#"Little Rock" –7:12
#"As We Used to Sing" –7:45
#"Many Mansions" –9:31
#"Once upon a Time" –6:26"(all compositions by Sonny Sharrock)"

Personnel

*Sonny Sharrock — electric guitar
*Pharoah Sanders — tenor & soprano saxophones
*Elvin Jones — drums
*Charnett Moffett — double bass

*Bill Laswell & Sonny Sharrock — producers

External links

* [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=17594 Sonny Sharrock's "Ask the Ages"] — article by Trevor MacLaren from [http://www.allaboutjazz.com All About Jazz] .