Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Retirement Income Shift
- Fauna Cantabrigiensis
- The white stork in Poland
- Guitar of Tim Sparks - Fingerstyle Excursions
- Statistics in Ecotoxicology
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klezmerjazzguitartzadikradical jewish culture
Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Tim Sparks started picking out tunes 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. <a href="http
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tim
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Winston-Salem
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Tzadik Records
- Image
- Tim sparks.jpg
- Work location
- Minneapolis
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- date of birth
- 1954-10-31
- start of work period
- 1972-00-00
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