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Brooklyn Funk Essentials
12+ albums
funkacid jazzjazzjazz-funkchillout
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Brooklyn Funk Essentials is an acid-jazz, funk, and hip hop collective featuring musicians and poets from different cultures. The band was conceived in 1993 by producer Arthur Baker and bassist and musical director Lati Kronlund. Lati Kronlund played the bass, and other members included Hanifah Walidah (aka Sha-key), Joi Cardwell, Papa Dee and Stephanie McKay (vocals), Everton Sylvester and David Allen (dub poetry), Josh Roseman (trombone), Bob Brockmann (trumpet), Paul Shapiro (sax & flute), Yancy Drew and Tony Allen (drums), E.J. Rodriguez and Danny Sadownic (percussion), Desmond Foster and Masa Shimizu (guitar), ATN Stadwijk and Yuka Honda (keys), Bill Ware (vibes) and dj’s Jazzy Nice and Smash on turntables. In the mid-1990s the group became a staple of the New York City club scene. Their debut album "Cool and Steady and Easy" (1994) scored an underground hit with the rendition of Pharoah Sanders's "The Creator Has a Master Plan". "Cool and Steady and Easy" (1994) also featured prominent guests like Maceo Parker, The Tower Of Power Horns, Michigan & Smiley and even Dizzy Gilespie. The album, "In The Buzz Bag"(1998), included Turkish folk music rythms and instruments, recorded with the Turkish band, Laço Tayfa. In The BuzzBag became a milestone in collaborative projects and earned BFE a Grammy nomination. It also escalated the group to a stadium capacity act in Turkey. In 2000, BFE released their third album "Make Them Like It", which concluded where the first album lef
top songs
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I Got Cash
28,7782Take The L Train
22,5213The Creator has a Master Plan
18,1204The Creator Has A Master Plan - Original Album Version
16,4255Blow Your Brains Out
16,3836Bop Hop
15,6577Istanbul Twilight
14,7698The Revolution Was Postponed Because Of Rain
14,5919Take The L Train (To 8 Ave.)
14,38610A Headnaddas Journey To The Planet Adidi-Skizm
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