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Tim Sparks

Born: October 31, 1954

Self taught by ear on an old Stella flat top during a bout of encephalitis that kept him out of school for a year. He taught himself to play the music he heard around him: traditional country blues and the gospel his grandmother played on piano in a small church in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

At age 14, Tim was nominated by a musically astute uncle for a scholarship at the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts. There he studied the classics with Segovia protege Jesus Silva while continuing to play all kinds of music, increasingly turning to classic jazz for inspiration. He adapted compositions by Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin, and Fats Waller to the guitar, frequently reducing piano arrangements to their essence. Early influences were Doc Watson, Arthur Smith, and most importantly Duck Baker, who opened up a horizon of possibilities for fingerstyle guitar.

Tim Sparks Lost and Found

By Tim Sparks

Label: Acoustic Music Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Lost and Found Take Five Moonshine Ramble Me and Bobby Mcgee Ticket to Ride I Feel Fine Michelle Mr Tambourine Man She’s Leaving Home The Crawl Breakfast in Barbes

Tim Sparks

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 11, 2012

Six Bars Jail - Serpiolle (FI) - 06.04.2012 Notevolissimo concerto offerto da Tim Sparks al Six Bars Jail, l'"angolo dei chitarristi fingerstyle" nascosto sulle colline che attorniano Firenze. Il cinquantottenne chitarrista del North Carolina ha messo in vetrina il suo enciclopedico repertorio, la sua capacità interpretativa, ma anche la propria schietta umanità, suonando per due set, ...

Little Princess

By Tim Sparks

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2010
Track listing: The Rebbe's Hasid (Dem Rebin's Chusid); Der Yid In Jerusalem;Oh Daddy, That's Good (Oy Tate, Si'is Gut); Little Princess (Kleine Princessin); Nifty's Freylekh; A Few Bowls Turkish (Turkishe Yalle Vey Uve); The Dearest In Bukovina (Das Teureste in Bukowina); Leben Zol Palestina; Turkish Circle Dance (Der Terkisher-Bulgar Tanz); A Bagel With Onions (A Hora Mit Tzibeles).

Chicago Guitar Festival Full Schedule Announced

September 15, 2010

Dot-to-Dot Management, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Serbian Cultural Arts Center of Chicago Present The Chicago Guitar Festival Thursday, October 7th-Thursday, October 14th Chicago, IL: Dot-to-Dot Management, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Serbian Cultural Arts Center of Chicago will present the groundbreaking Chicago Guitar Festival, a weeklong event ...

Tim Sparks: Little Princess

by Elliott Simon
June 4, 2010

The Klezmer revival began in earnest in the '80s, when the repertoires of clarinetists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras were rediscovered by a new generation of jazz, avant-garde and folk musicians. Instrumentalists, primarily violinists and clarinetists, tried to sound like these two giants while also integrating other more rhythmically complex musics. At one point the last ...

Tim Sparks: Little Princess

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 11, 2009

Giunto al quarto disco da titolare per la Tzadik (senza contare la partecipazione all'antologia Masada Guitars), il chitarrista Tim Sparks continua ad esplorare il repertorio della tradizione klezmer trasportandolo sulla sua chitarra acustica in versione fingerstyle, accompagnato, come nei due lavori precedenti, dalla ritmica di Greg Cohen e Cyro Baptista. Questa volta l'album è interamente dedicato ...

At The Rebbe’s Table

By Tim Sparks

Label: Farol
Released: 2002

Tanz

By Tim Sparks

Label: Farol
Released: 2000

One String Leads To Another

By Tim Sparks

Label: Farol
Released: 1999