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| Legends of Acid Jazz |
| Melvin Sparks |
első megjelenés éve: 1971
77 perc |
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| (1996)
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| 4.161 Ft
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| 1. | Thank You
Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin
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| 2. | I Didn't Know What Time It Was
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| 3. | Charlie Brown
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| 4. | The Stinker
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| 5. | Spill the Wine
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| 6. | Who's Gonna Take the Weight
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| 7. | Spark Plug
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| 8. | Conjunction Mars
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| 9. | Alone Together
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| 10. | Dig Dis
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Jazz / Soul-Jazz; Jazz Blues
Recorded: Sep 14, 1970-Mar 8, 1971
A spark plug of countless soul-jazz recording dates, Melvin Sparks helped lay the foundation for the acid-jazz movement with a biting guitar attack that combined the complexities of jazz with the directness of the blues. In his mid-twenties at the time he cut these two classic albums--his first as a leader--the Houston-born musician also had his ears plugged into the street, as his sizzling treatments of tunes by Sly and the Family Stone, Eric Burdon and War, and Kool and the Gang so brilliantly demonstrate. Contributing extra jolts of funk to the proceedings are such stellar players as organist Leon Spencer, drummer Idris Muhammad, and tenor saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr.
Liner Notes: Tom Curry, Bob Porter
Melvin Sparks - Guitar
John Manning - Sax (Tenor)
Leon Spencer - Organ
Grover Washington, Jr. - Sax (Tenor)
Reggie Roberts - Organ
Idris Muhammad - Drums
Virgil Jones - Trumpet
Houston Person - Sax (Tenor)
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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