It Is What It Is

Melvin Sparks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 8, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Savant
• ASIN: B000274T8K
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,343 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. It Is What It Is

2. Thank You

3. Charlie Brown

4. A Love Jam

5. Clinton Park

6. Guitar Playah

7. Got The Blues?

8. Pick Up The Pieces

9. Give Me The Night

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You could go crazy listening to this music . . ., June 19, 2004

By 

Jan P. Dennis "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: It Is What It Is (Audio CD)

. . . which is probably why I resisted it for so long. Then again, with its best practitioners--and Melvin Sparks ranks among the very best--there's a kinda weird mojo-thang happening that just can't be denied.

Soul-jazz, that what we be talkin'. Guitar, organ, sax, drums. The classsic format.

When it works, it do sompin, in a visceral, no-brainer kinda way, to yo' body. When it don't, it be like when you buy bacon on what you see in the package window--but they faked you out, man, with a 75% fatty cut for the majority of the package, and it just so greasy that your microwave's slimy when you done zappin' it, and you got flavorful but cholesteral-cloggin' hell awaiting you on your plate. Know what I mean?

Well, Melvin Sparks--yeah, he be greasy, but he got the meat to back it up. Chops-heavy, rock-your-socks-off, visceral-to-the-max soul-jazz. Git-you-off-you-butt, mojo-magic, that's what he dealin'.

Dig.

If you caint, you be dead.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, March 8, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: It Is What It Is (Audio CD)

He may not be as intellectual as, say, Grant Green, but he's undeniably cool.It features originals and some "sparked" renditions of pop songs. I'd give it 4.5 songs, but i can't so ill just give 5. BUY IT NOW!!!!! THIS IS SOME OF THE MORE GROUNDBREAKING JAZZ EVER RECORDED!!!!

P.S. I am just using the kids review format because I'm a lazy bum.