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 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.