BROOKLYN FUNK ESSENTIALS New Yorkers Hip Hop
Pop & Hip Hop
•
1h 14m
Brooklyn Funk Essentials is a music collective who mix jazz, funk, and hip hop, featuring musicians and poets from different cultures. The band was conceived in 1993 by producer Arthur Baker and bassist and musical director Lati Kronlund. In the mid-1990s, the group became a staple of the New York City club scene.
Their debut album Cool and Steady and Easy (1995) scored an underground hit with the rendition of Pharoah Sanders' "The Creator Has a Master Plan". The following album, In the BuzzBag (1998), included Turkish folk music rhythms and instruments, recorded in consortium with the Turkish clarinettist Hüsnü Şenlendirici.
They have been presenting their unique brand of eclectic funk to ecstatic audiences around the world since the early nineties. Originally conceived during a string of studio jam sessions, the all-star group of musicians, singers, DJs and poets hailing from different parts of the globe.
Cast: Hanifah Walidah (Vocals), Joi Cardwell (Vocals), Papa Dee (Vocals), Everton Sylvester (Vocals), Cengizhan Elibol (Drums), Jazzy Nice (DJ), Yuka Honda (Keyboard), Josh Roseman (Trombone), Paul Shapiro (Saxophone), Yancy Drew Lambert (Vocals, Drums), E.J. Rodriguez (Percussion), Lati Kronlund (Guitar, Bass), Yıldıran Göz (Oud), "Bassy" Bob Brockmann (Trumpet, Flugelhorn), David Jensen (Tenor saxophone), Iwan van Hetten (Keyboard, Trumpet), Anna Brooks (Tenor / Soprano saxophone)
Up Next in Pop & Hip Hop
-
DD'S BROTHERS The Land of Soul
A soul combo with a confirmed pedigree, the DD's BROTHERS are eight, with the particularity of dividing their vocal parts between their two singers: the Congolese Dora Kuvuna and the Californian Dorien Smith.
To claim soul, you have to have a heart. The DD's Brothers undoubtedly have it, and do...
-
DJOOG MUSIC Fresh Rap
Djoog is a bit of everything at the same time: Funk, Rap, Electro, Soul and Hip‐hop. What is FRESH! Stéphane Tiersen, master chef of the formation with supercharged keyboards, brings with him a hell of black music, made of groove and celebration.
Djoog takes you through the decades of groove, wi...
-
MA'GRASS True Funk Music
Ma'Grass is a powerful ensemble delivering true funk music. Beats from the 70's era of Funk music made their way to the new century, in London where music melts together like cheese on a pizza. Bringing in heavy African and Latin influences from intense and extensive collaborations. Backyard Bull...
