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.

Disc 1
1: Prelude
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

Disc 2
1: Afro Nigerian Girl
2: Pinky
3: Bobby Sparks Senior Talks About the Big Band Era
4: Eventual
5: Dr Rock Kickin' It at the RMR
6: Love Dance
7: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
8: Mayday
9: Somebody Already Broke My Heart
10: Jaime Starr
11: Love
12: Sodom and Gomorrah
13: South Dallas
14: Reaper
15: Negro National Anthem (Lift Every Voice and Sing)

Number of Discs: 2

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