Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Make Them Like It

Artist:

Brooklyn Funk Essentials

UPC:

016351506726

Description:

Brooklyn Funk Essentials: Paul Shapiro (vocals, flute, soprano, tenor & baritone saxophones); Atn Stadwijk (vocals, keyboards); Yancy Drew Lambert (vocals, drums); Papa Dee, Sha-Key, Stephanie McKay, Everton Sylvester (vocals); Bassy Bob Brockman (guitar, trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards); Lati Kronlund (guitar, keyboards, bass, programming); Masa Shimizu (guitar); E.J. Rodriguez (percussion).
Additional personnel: Desmond Foster (vocals, guitar); David Jensen (saxophone); Joshua Roseman, Andre Atkins (trombone); Tony Allen (drums, percussion); Danny Saddwnich (congas); Laco Tayfa (percussion); Paul "Ziggy" Zerang, DJ Smash, DJ Jazzy Nice.
Producers: Lati Kronlund, Bassy Bob Brockman.
Recorded at Black Plastic Magick, Dangerous Music, and Studio B, New York, New York; Imaj Studios, Istanbul, Turkey; Studio Da-Da, London, England.
Hip hop, drum-and-bass, Miles Davis/acid jazz, and New Orleans funk wrapped around a twisted blues--and that`s just the first cut from Brooklyn Funk Essentials` MAKE THEM LIKE IT. Disciples of the downbeat will want to seek out and sample this groovadelic gospel of worldbeat fusion and straight-up party-down delights.
If you like your jelly on the JBs tip, "Kik It" does just that; "Mambo Con Dancehall" offers deep drags off an Afro-Cuban cigar, and the outer-space ska of "Jump Around Sound" will have you out of your seat. The multi-cultural 11-piece BFE performs sprawling organic jams laced with echo-soaked horn solos, soaring soul diva vocals, live drums, and some of the tightest bass playing this side of Bootsy Collins. Ace trombonist Josh Roseman gives the horn section a Fred Wesley-type lift, and things turn comical when vocalist Everton Sylvester delivers his cool rudeboy hype with the flair of a beat poet. MAKE THEM LIKE IT should finally spread the word on BFE`s music beyond the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Make Them Like It
2. Mambo con Dancehall
3. Date With Baby
4. Woman Thing
5. I Got Cash
6. Confirm Reservation
7. Kik It
8. Jump Around Sound
9. Hard To Stop / Feelgood
10. Vinyl Crisis
11. To My Peeps
12. Martha
13. Bill`s Playground

Album Information

Release Date:

04/11/2000

Type:

Performer

Genre:

R&B

Subgenre:

Acid Jazz

Label:

Shanachie Records

Catalog Number:

5067

Original Release Year:

2000

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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