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Melvin Sparks passed away on March 15th, 2011 of complications from diabetes.The great soul-jazz guitarist Melvin Sparks died Tuesday. There isn't much press on his death and that's probably because he didn't enjoy the success of the people he supported: Sam Cooke, Idris Muhammed, Hank Crawford.A little-known site called jambands.com had a short little write up, by Annabel Lukins, a