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Bobby Sparks II

Empire Central

By Snarky Puppy

Label: GroundUP Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Keep It on Your Mind; East Bay; Bet; Cliroy; Take It!; Portal; Broken Arrow; RL's; Mean Green; Fuel City; Free Fall; Belmont; Pineapple; Honiara; Coney Bear; Trinity.

Center Stage

By Michael Abene

Label: Leopard
Released: 2022
Track listing: Signed, Sealed, Delivered; Watching the River Flow; I Can't Turn You Loose; Che Ore So; Them Changes; Way Back Home; Lucky 13; Honky Tonk / I Can't Stop Loving You; My Little Brother.

Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Ronnie Cuber, WDR Big Band: Center Stage

by Jack Bowers
November 22, 2022

Mixed emotions must underline this review. Center Stage, featuring bassist Eddie Gomez, drummer Steve Gadd and baritone saxophonist Ronnie Cuber with Germany's superb WDR Big Band conducted by Michael Abene, was recorded in Cologne in January and February 2022. Sadly, Ronnie Cuber passed away in October, shortly after the album was released. If ...

Schizophrenia: The Yang Project

By Bobby Sparks II

Label: Delta
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD 1: Birth Of The Sparkchild; Schizophrenia; We Play What We Want; Bobby Sparks Sr.’s Famous Chili; The Comanche Are Coming; A Girl From Tahiti (Interlude); So Fine; I Miss U; Black Man Running From The Police. CD 2: Stono River; Lio Is Weird As Hell; All Mine; Let’s Take A Journey; Can We Make Love?; Too Late Now, Boss Man! (Interlude); Islam (Hadjdj From India); Take It!; Zelin; Black Change; Bonus Track: Mark Vs. Simmons (A Secret Drum Story Of Houston, Tx).

Immigrance

By Snarky Puppy

Label: GroundUP Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: Chonks; Bigly Strictness; Coven; Bling Bling; Xavi; While We're Young; Bad Kids to the Back; Even Us.

Bobby Sparks II: Schizophrenia: The Yang Project

by Roger Farbey
March 19, 2019

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 ...