A Staten Island-based Afro-beat, soul-jazz, and funk instrumental ensemble, the Budos Music group came jointly at a jam program hosted by Brooklyn’s Afro-beat kings, Antibalas. Focusing on horn-driven world root base funk, the music group has a relatively fluctuating lineup which includes David Man and Andrew Greene on trumpet, Cochemea …

This UK jazz outfit comprised Dave O’Higgins (b. David O’Higgins, 1 Sept 1964, Birmingham, Western world Midlands, Britain; tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, EWI), John Smith (piano, keyboards), Mario Castronari (bass), and Mike Bradley (drums, percussion). Regardless of the significant press coverage directed at the saxophonist O’Higgins, it had been the …

A quirky folk group who defy a straightforward positioning in genre, Ed’s Redeeming Characteristics’ instrumentation — guitar, violin, ukulele, bongos, accordion, cardboard bass, and drum — suggests folk music as well as the songs have huge variations of affects from rock, nation, calypso, and klezmer. A reviewer explained them as …

The bandleader Bob Chester, adored by enthusiasts of both cold sweets and big music group music for his lip-smacking “Take the Sherbert if you ask me, Herbert,” began like a tenor saxophonist beneath the path of bandleaders such as for example Irving Aaronson, Ben Bernie, and Ben Pollack. From the …

This Jacksonville, FL-based mid-’60s folk-rock trio was notable twice over, both because of their actual sound, that was popular enough to earn them a far more than decent coping with local performances, as well as for the presence within their original lineup of future Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks, in …

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA quartet Birdmonster are similar to a Bay Region version of Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, except that where Leo and his group come with an undying devotion to first-wave brand-new influx and ska groupings just like the Jam as well as the Special deals, Birdmonster spike …

Although Australia’s most typical rock exports from the past due 90s and early 00s have already been Nirvana disciples (Silverchair, the Vines), the united states in addition has spawned a number of lesser known, even more primary sounding outfits, like the piano and strings-based chamber pop band MY PAL The …

Probably the most groove-oriented act within the mid-’90s female-fronted electronica crowd, Morcheeba depend on the sweet, fluid vocals of Skye Edwards along with a laid-back mixture of fusion, funk, and blues made by brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey on beats/scratches and guitar/keyboards, respectively. The trio was shaped in 1995 once …

Belying their origins like a raucous funk steel band, Sugars Ray created some of the most breezily infectious summer time singles from the late ’90s, striking on an attractive mix of sunny pop, lightly funky hip-hop grooves, and reggae lilt. Pegged mainly because likely one-hit miracles after their 1997 discovery …

The Australian sextet referred to as Not Drowning, Waving has recorded seven albums since getting formed in 1983 by vocalist/keyboardist David Bridie and guitarist John Phillips. By 1985, the alt-pop music group with atmospherics added bassist Rowan McKinnon, drummer Russell Bradley, soundman Tim Cole, and drummer Adam Southall. 1990’s State …