2009. BGP's top-selling Super Breaks series returns on the 30th Anniversary of the release of the first hip hop singles. The music captured on those early records - by the Sugarhill Gang and the Fatback Band among o..

2010. BGP's top-selling Super Breaks series returns on the 30th Anniversary of the release of the first hip hop singles. The music captured on those early records - by the Sugarhill Gang and the Fatback Band among o..

2006. The late 60s were a time of incredible change in black American Music. Civil rights had brought some advances but there was still much to do. In the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King politics got..

2020. Melvin Sparks was a talented American soul jazz, hard bop, blues and funk guitarist. As a high school student he first joined Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, and then the Upsetters (a touring band formed by ..

2017. This release documents Melvin's final band just months before his death in 2011. Organist Beau Sasser and drummer Bill Carbone had been working with Sparks for several years, and, despite the power dynamic (th..