Brooklyn Funk Essentials is a
music collective
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who mix
jazz
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,
funk
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, and
hip hop, featuring
musician
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s and
poet
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s from different cultures. The band was conceived in 1993 by producer
Arthur Baker and bassist and musical director
Lati Kronlund. In the mid-1990s, the group became a staple of the
New York City
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club scene.
Their debut album ''Cool and Steady and Easy'' (1995) scored an underground hit with the rendition of
Pharoah Sanders
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' "The Creator Has a Master Plan". The following album, ''
In the BuzzBag'' (1998), included
Turkish folk music
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rhythms and instruments, recorded in consortium with the
Turkish
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clarinettist
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Classical clarinetists
* Laver Bariu
* Ernest Ačkun
* Luís Afonso
* Cristiano Alves
* Michel Arrignon
* Dimitri Ashkenazy
* Kinan Azmeh
* Alexander Bader
* Carl Baermann ...
Hüsnü Şenlendirici. Further albums followed in 2000 and 2009 which more resembled their first offering.
Musicians involved
Musicians involved in Brooklyn Funk Essentials' projects include:
*
Hanifah Walidah (aka Sha-Key) (vocals)
*
Joi Cardwell
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(vocals)
*
Papa Dee
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(vocals)
*
Everton Sylvester (vocals)
*
Ipec Scnot (vocals)
*
Stephanie McKay
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(vocals)
*
Everton Sylvester (poets)
*
Cengizhan Elibol (drums)
*David Allen (poets)
*
Jazzy Nice (DJ)
*
Yuka Honda
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(keyboard)
*
Josh Roseman
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(trombone)
*
Paul Shapiro (saxophone)
*
Yancy Drew Lambert (vocals, drums)
*
E.J. Rodriguez (percussion)
*
Lati Kronlund (guitar, bass)
*
Yıldıran Göz (
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)
*
"Bassy" Bob Brockmann (trumpet, flugelhorn)
*
David Jensen
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(tenor saxophone)
*
Iwan van Hetten (keyboard, trumpet)
*
Anna Brooks (tenor / soprano saxophone)
Discography
Albums
Stay Good (2019)
Track listing
#Stay Good 6:50
#Ain't Nothing 3:49
#No Strings 3:40
#Watcha Want From Me 4:28
#Miss Mess 5:33
#Keep The Love 4:29
#Funk Ain't Ova 3:52
#Breeze On Me 4:26
#Bakabana 3:12
#Y Todavia La Quiero 7:19
#Steps 5:23
#Where Love Lives 3:45
Funk Ain't Ova (2015)
=Track listing
=
# Blast It! 4:44
# Dance Or Die 4:53
# I'm Gonna Find Me A Woman (Cause It's Cold Outside) 4:59
# Prepare 4:38
# Hold It Down 4:14
# Set It Off 4:59
# Hook 4:28
# Gabriel 4:58
# Brooklyn Love 4:37
# Recycled 5:31
# Unique 5:37
Watcha Playin (2008)
=Track listing
=
# Need 12:40
# Dance - Free Night 4:46
# Bellybuttons T&a 5:00
# Rude Boy Shuffle 6:38
# The Park 4:11
# Wendell Wedding 5:32
# For A Few Dollars More 8:09
# Work It Out 6:10
# My Jamaican Girl 5:19
# Dibby Dibby Sound 2:31
# S-curved 7:46
# The Day Before Adidi 6:12
Make Them Like It (2000)
=Track listing
=
# Make Them Like It 4:22
# Mambo Con Dancehall 6:48
# Date With Baby 5:07
# Woman Thing 6:20
# I Got Cash 4:50
# Confirm Reservation 6:13
# Kik It 6:00
# Jump Around Sound 4:41
# Hard To Stop/Feelgood 6:46
# Vinyl Crisis 5:38
# To My Peeps 1:07
# Martha 4:59
# Bill's Playground 4:17
In the BuzzBag (1998)
=Track listing
=
# By And Bye – 5:34
# Istanbul Twilight – 6:51
# Magick Karpet Ride – 5:06
# In The BuzzBag – 6:27
# Keep It Together – 7:26
# Selling Out – 5:56
# Ska Ka-Bop – 4:50
# You Don't Know Nothing – 5:04
# Freeway To Üsküdar – 4:57
# Zurna Preserve – 8:47
Cool and Steady and Easy (1995)
=Track listing
=
# Take The L Train (To B'klyn) 5:50
# The Creator Has A Master Plan 5:51
# The Revolution Was Postponed Because Of Rain 4:59
# Bop Hop 5:13
# Brooklyn Recycles 5:25
# Mizz Bed-Stuy 4:10
# A Headnaddas Journey To The Planet Adidi-Skizm 6:15
# Big Apple Boogaloo 6:21
# Blow Your Brains Out 4:59
# Stickman Crossing The Brooklyn Bridge 7:27
# Dilly Dally 5:10
# Take The L Train (To 8th Ave.) 4:05
Singles/EPs
*Mambo Con Dancehall
2"(2000)
*Mambo Con Dancehall
D(2000)
*Make Them Like It (Sampler) (2000)
*Magick Karpet Ride (1999)
*Big Apple Boogaloo (1997)
*Creator Has a Master Plan
assette Single(1995)
*Creator Has a Master Plan
D Single(1995)
References
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Musical groups from New York (state)
Acid jazz ensembles