Melvin Sparks
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It is catalogued under topics including 1946 births, 2011 deaths and 20th-century American guitarists.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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Melvin Sparks (born March 22, 1946) is an American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist most active in the 1960s and 1970s. Melvin Sparks is the Essential Guitar Player! He’s The Master Of The Groove! The Acid-Jazz Pioneer! The Originator of Soul Jazz, Old School Acid Jazz & BarbecueFunk(FUNKJAZZ) Over the last thirty years he 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). <a
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Melvin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Houston
- Place of death
- Mount Vernon
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Prestige
- Official website
- www.melvinsparks.com
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- date of birth
- 1946-03-22
- date of death
- 2011-03-15
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 2011-00-00
- place of burial
- Kensico Cemetery
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