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| Groove on Up |
| Melvin Sparks |
első megjelenés éve: 2005
48 perc |
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| (2006)
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| 3.906 Ft
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| 1. | Mykia's Dance
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| 2. | Cranberry Sunshine
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| 3. | Groove on Up
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| 4. | Hump
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| 5. | Ooh Girl
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| 6. | I Want to Say Thanks
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| 7. | She's a Bad Mama Jama
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| 8. | Onion Patch
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| 9. | If It Don't Fit
Don't Force It
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| 10. | U Got Mel
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Jazz / Jazz Blues
Melvin Sparks is a guitar PLAYAH. No, he is the Master of the Groove, Funk, Soul, Soul-Jazz, Barbeque Funk, whatever you want to call it. Melvin is THE guitar player! Look up those terms in Webster's and you will see a picture of Melvin Sparks credited with being one of the originators of the genre. Having honed his skills over the decades performing on countless nights from New York clubs to rural roadhouses, Melvin developed a talent for innovation and heart-pounding boogaloo-stylings. Melvin has only one gear and that is groovin'. See what has made him the Funkmaster Supreme on his latest Savant recording.
Jerry Z - organs
Paul Wolstencroft - organs
Eric Bolivar - drums
Eric Kalb - drums
Jun Saito - drums
Nikki Armstrong - vocals
Oscar Wright - vocals
Melvin Sparks
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Mar 22, 1946
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Hard Bop, Jazz Blues, Soul-Jazz
Although not a huge name in jazz, Melvin Sparks brought his Grant Green-influenced guitar to quite a few soul-jazz and organ-combo recordings of the late '60s and early '70s. A lover of jazz as well as R&B and blues, the Houston native took up the guitar at 11, and was only 13 when he sat in with B.B. King. In 1963, he joined the Upsetters, an R&B show band that backed Little Richard, Sam Cooke, and other big names. After leaving the Upsetters, Sparks played with Jack McDuff in 1966-1967. The improviser was very much in demand in the late '60s and early '70s, and he was featured on sessions by Charles Earland, Sonny Stitt, Lou Donaldson, Rusty Bryant, Sonny Phillips, Reuben Wilson, and Johnny "Hammond" Smith, among others. Sparks delivered his first album as leader, Sparks!, for Prestige in 1970, and recorded a few more Prestige dates before providing Melvin Sparks for Westbound in 1975. When soul-jazz's fortunes declined in the mid-'70s, the guitarist wasn't working as much. The only album Sparks recorded as a leader in the '80s was 1981's Sparkling on Muse, although he was featured as a sideman on sessions by Houston Person, Hank Crawford, and Jimmy McGriff during that decade. The 1990s saw a lot of renewed interest in soul-jazz, and in 1997, Sparks returned to the studio for his Cannonball date I'm a Gittar Player.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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