Bridging the Gap 6/21/23

*Quantic: "Run feat. Andreya Triana" (Single 2023) Brit. multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer & DJ Will Holland based in NYC plays soul, funk, jazz & various Latin styles. AT: Brit. soul sing/songwr.

*Kat Eaton: "Put Yourself In My Arms" (Talk To Me 2021) Brit. sing/songwr. co-writes with her guitarist husband Nick Atkinson since the age of 16.  They write when the feel 'compelled' to.

*Kinny & Horne: "Us On Fire" (Forgetting To Remember 2005) Caitlin Simpson Jamaican, Indigenous Canadian, French & Swedish heritage.  Canadian transplant to Sweden trained in opera before discovering her passion for jazz, reggae & soul. Espen Horne Norwegian funk/soul/jazz maestro of Bobby Hughes Experience/Combination

*Kraak & Smaak: "24HR Fling feat. Wolfgang Valbrun" (Pleasure Centre 2019) Dutch production trio Oscar De Jong, Mark Kneppers & Wim Plug play electronic funk. First album "Boogie Angst" 2006 "Twenty" (greatest hits 2LP) 2023

*Lack Of Afro: "All Night feat. Jack Tyson Charles" (Single ) Brit. prod/comp/multi-inst. Adam Gibbons plays funk, soul & hip hop. Got name from DJ gigs in college as a "fairly nerdy white guy...never going to be an afro involved in his vintage funk stylings"

*Monophonics: "Hanging On" (Sound Of Sinning 2015) SF Bay Area soul band play 'psychedelic soul'

influenced by Funkadelic, Sly & The Family Stone & Norman Whitfield. Kelly Finnigan (ld vox, keys)

Ian McDonald (guitar, backing vox)

*Orchestra Baobab: "Aline" (Made In Dakar 2007) Senegalese Afro-Cuban formed in 1970 as a multi-ethnic, multi-national group integrating Congolese Soukous, Wolof Griot & Mandinga musical traditions. Broke up 1980 and reformed in 2001 when interest in their music revived in Europe.

*Youssou N'Dour: "Birima" (Joki (From Village To Town) 2000) Senegalese singer began performing at age 12 & sang with "Star Band", the most successful group in Senegal at the time, by his mid teens.

*Toure Kunda: "Toubab Bi" (Toubab Bi 1985) Senegalese brothers Ismaila & Sixu Tidiane Toure moved to Paris in 1979. Sing in Soninke, Wolof, Fula, Mandingo & Portuguese creole.  Ismaila died 2/23 Paris

*Frank Zappa: "Variations On The Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression" (Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar 1981) Am. composer, guitarist, vocalist, bandleader, producer & filmmaker 12/21/40 - 12/4/93 from prostate cancer. Not only an incredible musician/performer & composer, FZ was a master of biting satire lampooning the music industry & society at large.  R&R Hall of Fame Performer 1996

*Sonny Sharrock: "Black Bottom" (Guitar 1986) One of the first American 'free jazz' guitarists. Played with Miles Davis, Pharaoh Sanders, Herbie Mann & Roy Ayers & many others.

*Peter Green: "Proud Pinto" (In The Skies 1979) English guitarist, singer/songwriter founder of Fleetwood Mac with Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. During the mid 70s he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and endured electroconvulsive therapy. Reemerged in 1979 with "In The Skies"

*Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu: "Floating Orange" (4th Dimension 2009) Lassi Lehto Finnish musician composer & artist. KK: Akinola Famson, Ekow Brown & Patrick Frankowski Berlin afrobeat band

HOUR 2

*Latin Soul Syndicate: "Frida Kahlo" (Latin Soul Syndicate 2004) Karl Parazzo, Mark Pistel (producer engineer, remixer, songwr.) & Happy Sanchez based in SF plays upbeat Latin soul, electronica & pop/rock

*Grupo Fantasma: "Nada" (Problemas 2014) Austin TX Latin soul/funk band Grammys in Best Latin Rock or Alternative category on 51st and 53rd Grammys.

*Frente Cumbiero & Mad Professor: "La Bocachico" (Frente Cumbiero Meets Mad Professor 2011) Bogota, Colombia cumbieros founded by Mario Galeano & Eblis Alvarez. MG plays in 'Ondatropica' with Quantic (Will Holland)

*Mocean Worker: "RubberBand" (Mocean Worker 2015) Jazz musician (bass, vox)/ producer Adam Dorn electro-swing, funk, big band & swing. 

*Mr. Scruff: "Champion Nibble" (Trouser Jazz 2002) British DJ, producer & artist Andrew Carthy produces home-based quirky animation and art associated with his music.

*The Mackrosoft: "Wei Lin Da" (Straight Outta ROMpton 2003) Composer/multi-inst. Aja West led fusion of funk, soul, jazz & electronic music out of Seattle Wa. 

*Lemongrass: "July Sky feat. Jane Maximova" (Soulful 2020) German DJ, producer Roland Voss electronic, downtempo, EDM, lounge, jazz, soul, trip hop, world, etc. With brother Daniel formed Lemongrass label in 2005.

*Thievery Corporation: "Shadows Of Ourselves" (The Mirror Conspiracy 2000) American electro duo Rob Garza & Eric Hilton mix dub, acid jazz, reggae, Indian classical, Middle Eastern, hip hop & bossa nova. Vocals by Lou Lou

*Hattler: "Teaser" (Velocity 2018) German jazz/rock bassist composer Hellmut Hattler with fellow German musicians Torsten de Winkel & Joo Kraus developed electronica/jazz sound. Current vocalist Fola Dada German jazz, soul, pop is a professor of jazz/pop singing and dance

*Hamburg Spinners: "Maries Mexikaner" (Skorpion im Stiefel 2021) Funk/jazz/modal band from Hamburg, Germany. Carsten 'Erobique' Meyer: Hammond B-3 Dennis Rux: Guitar David Nesselhauf: Bass & Lucas Kochbeck: drums. Album was recorded live on analogue equipment.

*The Haggis Horns: "Puttin' On The Beef: (Keep On Movin' 2010) UK 7 pc. funk band combine breakbeat funk, soul, hip hop & afrobeat with the virtuosity of jazz trained musicians.

*Beat Bronco Organ Trio: "Eternal Question" (Road Trip 2020) Spanish soul/jazz/funk trio with vintage grooves & soulful sounds. Gabri Casanova-Hammond Organ Lucas De Mulder-Guitar & Antonio Pax Alvarez-Drums

*Tommy Guerrero: "Thin Brown Layer" (Soul Food Taqueria 2003) Am. guitarist/skater playing rock, hip hop, funk, soul & jazz