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By the audio of them, you’ll have thought Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings began making funk-threaded spirit music jointly in the 1960s. Few devotedly vintage acts had been as convincing. Few performers as qualified as Sharon Jones at stuffing records with ache and meaning will be willing to choose sound …

Although he became associated for a while using the M-Base musicians, Lonnie Plaxico is a extremely flexible bassist throughout his career. In early stages he used Chet Baker, Sonny Stitt, and Junior Make. After hanging out in Wynton Marsalis’ music group (1982), Plaxico caused Dexter Gordon and Hank Jones before …

Briggan Krauss is a different one of several jazz players who began his profession in Seattle in the first ’90s, and then move to NEW YORK to produce a dent within the Downtown picture. Although he also takes on baritone sax and clarinet, Krauss’ primary instrument is definitely alto sax, …

Organist John Medeski has turned into a recognized and respected participant in N.Con.C.’s downtown jazz picture and, even more popularly, along with his group Medeski, Martin & Solid wood. Given birth to in 1965 in Kentucky, Medeski grew up in Feet. Lauderdale, Florida where he started playing piano together with …

Jazz drummer Ben Perowsky was created and raised in NEW YORK; as a teenager he performed behind his dad, bop saxophonist Frank Perowsky, before shifting to back again everyone from Roy Ayers to Wayne Moody to Rickie Lee Jones. An alumnus from the Lounge Lizards, through the middle-’80s Perowsky also …

NY trumpeter Steven Bernstein was music director of John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, co-leader from the trio Spanish Take a flight, and served as arranger and leader from the Kansas Town Band (in the Robert Altman film and Verve All-Stars Tour). Bernstein after that started leading his very own groupings and …