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Tim Sparks
Born:
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
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
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
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
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 ...