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| 1. | It Is What It Is
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| 2. | Thank You
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| 3. | Charlie Brown
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| 4. | A Love Jam
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| 5. | Clinton Park
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| 6. | Guitar Playah
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| 7. | Got the Blues?
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| 8. | Pick Up the Pieces
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| 9. | Give Me the Night
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Jazz / Soul-Jazz; Hard Bop; Jazz Blues
Recorded: Jan 20-Feb 12, 2004, Tedesco Studio, Paramus, New Jersey
Melvin Sparks - guitar
Joe Herbeck - saxophone
Cochemea Gastalim - saxophone
Jeremy Baum - organ
Adam Scone - organ
Eric Kalb - drums
Melvin Sparks is back! And he's geared up on this new CD to show us all what he does better than anyone else...Groove hard and in the pocket! While sharing the stage with funky masters such as Curtis Mayfield and James Brown, Melvin blended his Texas blues influences and formal jazz education with the Funk and Soul styling of Motown melodies. The end result was the roots of Acid Jazz. Most recently, he is attributed with revitalizing the Soul Jazz music scene by inspiring countless new projects including Greyboy Allstars, Soulive and Galactic (to name a few). This living legend is more prominent than ever as this new CD reflects his sensational talent for innovation and heart pounding boogaloostylings. With many new originals and some reinterpreted bouncing versions of others by Sly Stone, George Benson and Average White Band, 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.
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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