Sonny Clark died of a probable heroin overdose in New York City in 1963 when he was only thirty two years old. In the ten years since he made his recording debut with The Teddy Charles West Coasters in 1953 he had participated in over fifty recording dates, most of them for the Blue Note record label. In fact there was a period in the late fifties when he was effectively the house pianist at Blue Note, recording sessions with among others, Buddy de Franco, Sonny Criss, Frank