Effective period / Period of releases: 1968 - 2013

Members: John Abercrombie, Vinnie Johnson, Monty Stark

Stark Reality from Boston, Massachusetts, United States was active from 1969 – 1970. 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.
Members were : Monty Stark – vibraphone, Carl Atkins – saxophone, John Abercrombie – guitar, Phil Morrison – bass and Vinnie Johnson – drums