Tag Archives: Free Funk

M-Base creator, composer, and alto saxophonist Steve Coleman comes from Chicago. His first years had been spent playing in R&B and funk rings in emulation of his 1st hero, Maceo Parker. Coleman got heard all of the greats in his hometown and transformed his concentrate from R&B to jazz precipitating …

Bakersfield’s Invisible Astro Recovery Tempo Quartet play a make of funky, hypnotic jazz equally indebted to Sunlight Ra’s astral meditations, Ethiopian music artists such as for example Mulatu Astatke, and groove-heavy psych/Krautrock rings like May. Their expanded compositions mix swirling, repetitive rhythms with spiritually minded trumpet and saxophone solos, creating …

Vocalist/songwriter and co-founder of Royal Southern Brotherhood, Mike Zito, formed the Steering wheel in his adopted house of Nederland, in South East Tx in 2012. The Music group is made up of Jimmy Carpenter on guitars and saxophone, Rob Lee on drums, and Scot Sutherland on bass. The Wheel’s debut …

The Royal Southern Brotherhood is a Southern rock, blues, R&B, and soul supergroup of sorts, having a pedigree that’s pretty impressive. For just one, the group’s primary singer may be the amazing Cyril Neville of Meters and Neville Brothers popularity. Guitarist Devon Allman may be the child of Gregg Allman …

Transmitting, aka the Transmitting Trio, was originally a quartet formed in Ann Arbor, MI, in the mid ’90s, even though most of its users were going to the University or college of Michigan College of Music. Saxophonist/clarinetist Colin Stetson, clarinetist Stuart Bogie, bassist Eric Perney, and drummer Andrew Kitchen gigged …