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Spark Plug (album)

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Reception
Track listing
Personnel
References

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| name = Spark Plug
| type = Album
| artist = Melvin Sparks
| cover = Spark Plug (album).jpg
| alt =
| released = 1971
| recorded = March 1 and 8, 1971
| venue =
| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
| genre = Jazz
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| label = Prestige
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| producer = Bob Porter
| chronology = Melvin Sparks
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| prev_year = 1970
| next_title = Akilah!
| next_year = 1972
}}Spark Plug is the second album by soul jazz guitarist Melvin Sparks which was recorded for the Prestige label in 1971.^[1]

Reception

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| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}^[2]
}}AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "It's more relaxed, funky, occasionally bluesy jazz with guitar and organ to the fore, very much of a piece with the Prestige soul-jazz "house" sound circa 1970".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Melvin Sparks except where noted.

"Who's Gonna Take the Weight" (Ronald Bell, George Brown, Robert Mickens, Claydes Charles Smith, Dennis Thomas, Richard Westfield) – 9:20
"Spark Plug" – 8:50
"Conjunction Mars" – 8:11
"Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 4:14
"Dig Dis" – 6:45
- Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewwod Cliffs New Jersey on May 1 (track 1) and May 8 (tracks 2-5), 1971

Personnel

Melvin Sparks – guitar
Virgil Jones – trumpet
Grover Washington, Jr. – tenor saxophone
Reggie Roberts (tracks 2-5), Leon Spencer (track 1) – organ
Idris Muhammad – drums
Bob Porter – producer
Rudy Van Gelder – engineer

References

1. ^Prestige Records discography accessed May 22, 2013
2. ^¹Unterberger, R. AllMusic listing accessed May 22, 2013.

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