Sparks!
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Texan guitarist Melvin Sparks made three albums for Prestige Records in the early ’70s. Sparks was the first and maybe the funkiest, with drum warrior Idris Muhammad providing a solid but agile rhythmic backbone to four funk jazz tracks and one deftly swinging soul-jazz track, “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was.” The choices of material — pop songs “Spill The Wine” and “Charlie Brown” along with Rodgers and Hart’s “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” — are all given a thorough drenching in church-flavoured Hammond organ and the jazziest of funky drumming over which Sparks and his band happily exchange solos.