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| 1. | Another Joe
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| 2. | What You Hear Is What You Get
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| 3. | The Governor
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| 4. | Funky Good Time
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| 5. | Turnin' Point
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| 6. | Matter of Time
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| 7. | Get N' It
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| 8. | Money
That's What I Want
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| 9. | Breeze
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Jazz / Soul-Jazz
Recorded: Dec 3-4, 2001, Tedesco Studios, Paramus, New Jersey
The Melvin Sparks Band
Melvin Sparks - vocals, guitar, bass
Joe "Herbie J." Hrbek - alto saxophone
George Papageorge - Hammond B-3 organ
Tim Luntzel - acoustic & electric basses
Carter McLean - drums
Additional personnel:
Topaz - tenor saxophone
Reuben Wilson - Hammond B-3 organ
Melvin Sparks wrote the book on Jazz-Funk guitar and is now currently the buzz on the Jam Band scene. From his contributions as a pioneer of Acid Jazz to this new and enormously popular Jam Band genre Melvin's guitar has been an ever-present force in jazz-funk-rhythm-blues music for thirty years. A popular session player for Blue Note, Prestige, Muse, HighNote and others, with artists like Lou Donaldson, 'Fathead' Newman, Houston Person, Charles Earland et al, this, Melvin's latest CD as a leader, was cited in the March 2003 Downbeat as being one of the top 50 Soul Jazz Albums of 2002. Bringing with him the great B-3 artistry of Reuben Wilson and the saxophone fenom 'Topaz', Melvin lays down track after funky track and, as he did for all those years, defines the sound and shape that music is to take.
Includes liner notes by Bob Putignano.
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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