Daily News | Monnette Sudler, Philly jazz guitar great, has died at 70
“She ushered me into the the Philadelphia jazz scene.” said bassist Gerald Veasley, founder of Jazz Philadelphia. “Once I worked with Monette, she put her stamp of approval on me.”
During COVID, Philadelphia bassist Reggie Workman had Sonny Rollins as a guest at a New School class in New York he was teaching on Zoom. When Rollins saw Ms. Sudler on the screen, Veasley said, “He got all excited. ‘Monette, so good to see you.’ I was impressed.” Ms. Sudler was on the Zoom call because she heard Rollins was going to speak.
Ms. Sudler blazed a trail in a jazz world dominated by men. “Back then, not too many people were seeing a woman playing with all male bands. She was young, and probably nervous. She hadn’t been playing that long. But then she really started to grow,” James said. Sounds of Liberation’s music pushed boundaries and reveled in musical experimentation, mixing free jazz, roughhouse funk and socially conscious politics into a heady brand of self-described “Black Liberation Music.”
In 2019, the reunited band played Union Transfer and Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia to celebrate the release ofSounds of LiberationLater in 2019, the group recorded a new album at Montgomery County College in Blue Bell with Ms. Sudler’s friend, saxophonist David Murray. That music has not yet been released, except for a video of a song called “SOL,” which Ms. Sudler wrote the night before the recording session.
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