Melvin Sparks Band - April 8th & 9th, 2005
Over the last thirty years, Melvin Sparks has played with some of Jazz's greatest musicians: David "Fathead" Newman, Lou Donaldson, Hank Crawford, Reuben Wilson and John Patton (are amongst the many). During the 1970s, Sparks backed up Lou Donaldson on the Funk-Jazz classics "Everything I Play Is Funky" and "Hot Dog". Sparks recorded seven albums of his own and played on over 100 other albums. As a session man for Blue Note and Prestige Records, Sparks laid his signature guitar work on many other musician's albums without ever being in spotlight. It was during this time that Melvin defined the jazz-guitar sound of a generation.

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Band Information
Melvin Sparks — guitar
Ken Clark — organ
Justin Tomsovic — drums