BOBBY SPARKS II: ‘Paranoia’ (Leopard)
Bobby Sparks certainly doesn’t do things by halves; the Texas keyboard wizard’s debut album, 2019’s ‘Schizophrenia: The Yang Project,’ was a mind-bogglingly lavish double set whose scope and grandeur are more than equaled by...
VARIOUS ARTISTS: ‘Mainstream Funk’ (We Want Sounds)
Founded in 1964 by a pioneering New York record producer called Bob Shad, whose main claim to fame was establishing the jazz-oriented EmArcy imprint at Chicago’s Mercury Records, Mainstream was home in the late-’60s...