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Stark Reality
OriginBoston, Massachusetts, United States
GenresJazz fusion
Years active1969 – 1970

Stark Reality was an American jazz-rock band which recorded the 1970 album The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop, a heavily-improvised reinvention of a 1958 children's album by songwriter Hoagy Carmichael to be used for the show Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop which aired on PBS. The album was re-released by Stones Throw in 2003. Previously unreleased songs were released by Now-Again Records as a compilation called 1969. Now-Again reissued the group's entire catalog again in 2013.

Formed in Boston, Massachusetts, most of the band's members attended the Berklee College of Music.

Members

  • Monty Stark - vibraphone
  • Carl Atkins - saxophone
  • John Abercrombie - guitar
  • Phil Morrison - bass
  • Vinnie Johnson - drums