Stark Reality United States
Biography
Stark Reality was an American jazz/rock fusion band most famous for their 1970 album "Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop", a heavily-improvised reinvention of a 1958 children's album by songwriter Hoagy Carmichael. The album has been sampled by many hip-hop groups. Band members: Monty Stark vibraphone & vocals Carl Atkins saxophones & flute John Abercrombie guitar Phil Morrison bass Vinnie Johnson drums
