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Melvin Sparks (1946-2011)
Melvin Sparks, a much-in-demand soul-jazz guitarist who recorded with virtually all of the great organists of the late '60s and '70s and pioneered a sound that borrowed from Grant Green and Sly Stone, died on March 13 . He was 64. Sparks was at his best playing a muscular, groovy rhythm guitar behind organists like Leon ...
Under the Big Top: Detroit's 31st Year Hits a High Note
by C. Andrew Hovan
31st Annual Detroit Intermational Jazz FestivalHart PlazaDetroit, MichiganSeptember 3-6, 2010Last year may have been their 30th anniversary year, but this past Labor Day weekend, The Detroit Jazz Festival pulled out all the stops for what had to be one of the most memorable line-ups of recent memory. Mother Nature would cooperate ...
Creole Restaurant & Music Supper Club Proudly Presents Jazz: The Legacy Series Continues Tribute to the Legendary Jimmy McGriff June 26th and 27th
Creole Restaurant and Music Supper Club continues to invigorate the Harlem Jazz scene… proudly presenting a Tribute To The Legendary Jimmy McGriff with Reuben Wilson, Melvin Sparks, Bill Easley, and Vince Ector as part of its Jazz Legacy Series – on Friday and Saturday, June 26th and 27th at 8:00 and 10:00 PM at Creole, 2167 ...
1st Annual Underground Big Apple Jazz Festival 2009
Coming June 26 to July 4th, 2009 to a Hidden Jazz Haunt from the Village to Harlem A week-long celebration will rope together for the first time the best Underground Jazz scene in NYC's hidden neighborhood spots that feature Live Jazz>; Each will put their Fest foot forward with exciting performances for 1st Annual Underground Big ...
Samo Salamon & Aljosa Jeric Quartet: Mamasaal feat. Mark Turner
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
That bandleaders Samo Salamon and Aljosa Jeric are Slovenian doesn't appear to be of much musical relevance; jazz settings of East European folk songs are not the order of the day here. But it might have some metaphorical relevance; just as their tiny homeland has shot to the top of all social, economic and political rankings ...
Melvin Sparks: I'm A 'Gittar' Player
by Douglas Payne
Guitarist Melvin Sparks will sound familiar to those who like the fatback soul-jazz of the late 60s and early 70s. That music has new life today as “acid jazz" and Sparks was a significant catalyst in its sound. He's ignited some of the better funk of Lou Donaldson ( Pretty Things and Cosmos ), Sonny Stitt ...
