Sparks Ii, Bobby

Paranoia

Keyboardist-composer-arranger-conceptualist Bobby Sparks continues his staggering output with Paranoia, a companion piece to 2019s Schizophrenia - The Yang Projecton Leopard Records. An all-star outing featuring contributions from guitarists Mike Stern, John Scofield, Dean Brown, Andy Timmons and Eric Gales, saxophonists Chris Potter and Keith Anderson, bassists PinoPalladino, HadrienFeraud, Chuck Smith, Mononeon, Jay Mck and Reggie Washington, drummers Lil John Roberts, Dennis Chambers, Brannen Temple, Mike "Blaque Dynamite" Mitchell and Mark Simmons, and singers Lizz Wright, Dnessa Perry, Jojo Hill, Chuckii Booker and James Robinson, Paranoia is dedicated to the keyboardists father, the late Bobby Sparks, Sr., a lifelong bebop and blues fan. Also on board for this exhilarating ride are Sparks Snarky Puppy bandmates- bassist-founder Michael League, guitarist Mark Lettieri and drummer Jason JT Thomas. The influences of keyboardists Bernard Wright, BernieWorrell, George Duke and Stevie Wonder as well as funk overlord George Clinton and Sparks own background in church music come to bear on his ambitious secondrelease as a leader for Leopard.

Price
€ 39.50
Genre
Format
LP - 3 disk
Release date
13-05-2022
Label
Item-nr
555782
EAN
4049774780882
Availability
In stock
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. BOBBY SPARKS IIPRELUDE
2. MUSICAL DIARRHEA
3. GOOD MORNING AMERICA
4. HORNY DREAMS
5. DMSR
6. FOREVER MINE
7. WUTANG
8. SOMETIMES IT SNOWS IN APRIL
9. LETTER TO MUMBAI
10. YO YO
11. HERE'S ONE
12. AFRO NIGERIAN GIRL
13. PINKY
14. BOBBY SPARKS SENIOR TALKS ABOUT THE BIG BAND ERA
15. EVENTUAL
16. DR ROCK KICKIN' IT AT THE RMR
17. LOVE DANCE
18. GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
19. MAYDAY
20. SOMEBODY ALREADY BROKE MY HEART
21. JAIME STARR
22. LOVE
23. SODOM AND GOMORRAH
24. SOUTH DALLAS
25. REAPER
26. NEGRO NATIONAL ANTHEM (LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING)