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Bobby Sparks II: Schizophrenia: The Yang Project
by Roger Farbey
Listening to this incredible double CD it's hard to believe that this is Bobby Sparks II's first album under his own name. Granted he has contributed to many records in his quarter-century career, notably with the likes of Kirk Franklin, Roy Hargrove, Marcus Miller, Fred Hammond and Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent). However, this prodigious double-album debut certainly makes up for lost time. With the clue in the title, Schizophrenia: The Yang Project, this is a veritable potpourri of genres. ...
read moreMiles Davis: Miles Davis Live
by Douglas Payne
This fairly well-recorded concert captures the very electric Miles Davis octet live in the South of France sometime during the summer of 1988. It's hard to say if this is a legitimate release. But the quality of the recording and the performance places it above any of Mile's post- Pangaea “live" releases (pending Warner Brothers' choice to release any of its tapes from concerts Miles did in France during July 1986).This fifty-minute, five-song program, like most of Miles's ...
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