Album Notes

S. Pearl writes "soft songs, hard poems and 3rd eye music," merging word with other artists' music,dance and visual art. ON THE SHARP SIDE includes esteemed reed man Buddy Collette on flute, vocalist Dwight Trible, percussionist Munyungo Jackson, bassist Roberto Miguel Miranda, and Louis Van Taylor,Jr. on saxophone and flute.
Her second poetry w/jazz CD, HIGHER GROUND, was released in 2008.

In print: the non-fiction Black Women For Beginners (distr. by Random House), and 4 volumes of poetry. An award winning filmmaker, she merged poetry with film in the short Back Inside Herself, and the feature documentaries Life Is A Saxophone, on "word musician" Kamau Daa'ood, and The Healing Passage/Voices From The Water. Sharp's essays and commentaries are heard on NPR and other broadcast outlets.