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Vocalist Jeannie Reynolds, most widely known for “The Fruits Music,” was the sister of L.J. Reynolds from the Dramatics. Though “The Fruits Song” is definitely her signature music, her highest-charting solitary was the snappy “The Phone’s Been Jumping ALL DAY LONG” on Casablanca Information, which visited amount ten R&B on …

The Broun Fellinis certainly are a jazz/hip-hop trio hailing through the Bay Area whose members include percussionist Teacher Boris Karnaz (born Kevin Carnes), bassist Kirk the Redeemer, and woodwind player Dark Edgar Kenyatta. Their debut, Aphrokubist Improvisations, Vol. 9, premiered in 1995. The group has generated their very own mythology …

Apparently the band whose music coined the word acid jazz (whenever a British journalist struggled to spell it out it), the James Taylor Quartet has explored spy soundtrack, soul-jazz, and funk because the group’s beginnings within the mid-’80s. Originally playing the Hammond B-3 body organ within the U.K. mod revival …

Born in tour right into a music family members, Mindi Abair was using piano by age five. Within 3 years, she was playing saxophone and composing songs. She produced her method through Berklee executing all sorts of music from jazz to rock and roll and R&B. Upon shifting back to …

Chicago acid jazz outfit Water Spirit originally comprised saxophonist/musical director Mars Williams, DJ Jesse de la Peña, guitarist Tommy Klein, bassist Ricky Showalter, trumpeter Ron Haynes, keyboardist Frankie Hill, and drummer Dan Leali; shaped in 1993, the group quickly surfaced like a Windy Town club favorite because of their regular …

Definately not your run-of-the-mill modern jazz chart-toppers, the duo of Stuart Wade and Chris Morgans result from a long type of Uk advocates of jazz like the COMPLETELY NEW Heavies and Us3. Their initial record as Right down to the Bone tissue, 1997’s From Manhattan to Staten, do predictably well …

The very first act signed to the groundbreaking acid jazz label Talkin’ Loud, Galliano formed in 1988 around acid home DJ Rob Gallagher but afterwards considered laid-back and jazzy soul with heavy focus on live presentation and environmental issues. A loose collective during its initial years, the group comprised Gallagher …

The jazz/hip-hop fusion collective Us3 scored a significant hit in 1994 with “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia),” a song that shown the group’s fondness for sampling classic recordings around the Blue Note label (in cases like this, Herbie Hancock’s “Cantaloupe Island”). The group was founded in London in 1991 when concert promoter …

Within the mid-’90s, percussionist Chris Bangs and keyboardist Mick Talbot united while focusing on a task for the acid jazz unit Galliano. Since that time they have place their energies into developing the music of Soundscape UK, which calls for the spirit and disco noises from the ’70s and morphs …