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| This Is It! |
| Melvin Sparks |
első megjelenés éve: 2005
59 perc |
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| (2005)
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| 3.906 Ft
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| 1. | This Is It!
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| 2. | Bambu
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| 3. | Heavy Fallin' Out
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| 4. | My Girl
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| 5. | Give Your Life to G-d
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| 6. | Watch Yo' Step
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| 7. | Bounce
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| 8. | The Light Is On
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| 9. | Hot Barbecue
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Jazz / Soul-Jazz; Hard Bop; Jazz Blues
Recorded: Jan 11, 2005, Tedesco Studio, Paramus, New Jersey
Call it what you want: Groove, Soul Jazz, Old-School Acid Jazz, BarbequeFunk, Funk Jazz or whatever. Look up those terms in Webster's and there you'll find a picture of Melvin Sparks, the guitarist credited as the originator of the genre. This living legend is more prominent than ever as this new CD "This Is It!" reflects his sensational talent for innovation and heart pounding boogaloo-stylings. With many new originals and some reinterpreted bouncing versions of others by Smokey Robinson, Jack McDuff et al, this new disc is a masterful work by Melvin Sparks and is sure to find its rightful place in your collection of all-time favorite funk records. With organist Jerry Z and the usual suspects, Melvin again shows us why he is known as the Funkmeister Supreme.
Melvin Sparks - guitar
Jerry Z - organ
Cochemea Gastelum - sax
Jennifer Hartswick - trumpet
Justin Tomsovic - drums
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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