Leo Parker: Rollin’ With Leo (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP ETJS-78.1 guitarist Melvin Sparks

guitarist Melvin Sparks

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Leo Parker: Rollin’ With Leo (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP ETJS-78.1 guitarist Melvin SparksBlue Note, 1980 Leo Parker was the first baritone saxophonist on the bebop scene and gained prominence in Billy Eckstines band as a member of the Unholy Four saxophone section that also included Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon, and Gene Ammons in the mid 1940s. Personal troubles sidelined Parker in the 1950s, but in 1961 he made a tragically brief comeback on Blue Note when he recorded two excellent sessionsLet Me Tell You Bout It and Rollin With Leobefore