Tag Archives: Lefties Soul

The foundation from the Dynamics’ reggae music is profoundly indebted to ’60s/’70s deep soul and funk. Their preliminary appeal to golf club DJs, crate-diggers, and traditional reggae aficionados originated from their cover tunes, transforming indie rock and roll, disco, and North soul tracks into classic, analog-induced rocksteady and dub. From …

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 …

Interweaving rock and roll, funk, and avant-garde jazz, the line-up of Artanker Convoy includes Artanker (drums), Joe Fiorentino (bass), Chris Seed products (keyboard), Art Lavis (guitar), Jon Warren (percussion), and Jake Oas (sax). The annals from the Brooklyn ensemble could be traced back again to the first ’90s, when Artanker …

A multicultural, high-energy collective from Ottawa, Ontario, the Souljazz Orchestra — featuring keyboardist Pierre Chrétien, alto saxophonist Zakari Frantz, baritone saxophonist Ray Murray, tenor saxophonist Steve Patterson, and percussionists Marielle Rivard and Philippe Lafrenière, most of whom may also be vocalists — took main in 2002 and debuted with a …

A fixture for the U.K.’s spirit and funk revivalist circuit, the Pimptones had been shaped in 2007 and so are led by guitarist/composer/arranger Nick Satisfaction. The band’s vintage dancefloor-friendly sound on the debut solitary “Deeper Pimp” captured the hearing of important U.K. DJ Craig Charles, amongst others, and resulted in …