He ushers in the album's release here, engaging the personnel of a sharp working band he calls Oracle: John Ellis on saxophone and bass clarinet, Mike Moreno on guitar, Taylor Eigsti on piano and Joe Sanders on bass.
The rise of self-contained rock groups and electronic instruments, among other factors, had led to a sharp drop work for studio musicians.
They made short and sharp work of acquiring them.
Sharp work Gavin Turk's charming needle-works were made by prisoners as part of a social enterprise project.
But there are too many loose ends, too many dramatic cul de sacs in a short play like this; they don't feel like a messy reflection of life but rather the result of a first draft of a sharper, better work.
An Alameda, Calif., resident since 1980, Sharp worked at a mental health center in San Francisco until he retired in 1988.
After his release in 1954, Sharp worked for A. J. Muste, whom he calls "the most famous American pacifist".
A spokeswoman for the university said: "The Helsington Foundation is entirely independent of the company with which Mr Sharp worked".
His sharp working band features Luis Perdomo on piano, Massimo Biolcati on bass and Henry Cole on drums.
Certainly, there is evidence of a sharp intelligence at work, using a propitious moment to delineate more broadly the relations between a sovereign and his subjects.
But from the same period there is also "The Blind Leading the Blind" (1947-49), a sharp, hard-edged work that seems to prefigure Minimalism, in which pairs of tapered, toothpick-like legs in painted bronze are rigidly arranged, one behind the other, as if on a mindless march.
