Bridging the Gap July 19, 2023

*The Bahama Soul Club: "The Rooster Calls feat. Josephine Nightingale" (Sundub Society 2023) German based group playing jazz, funk, blues, Bossa Nova with Afro & Caribbean influences led by Oliver Belz composer, producer, engineer & musician. Played drums since kindergarten.  JN: English sing/songwr

*Maya Fadeeva: "No Inspiration (Club Des Belugas Remix)" (How To Avoid Difficult Situations [CdB]) Russian-German singer/songwriter & producer

*De-Phazz: "Open Skies feat. Pat Appleton & Joo Kraus" (Jelly Banquet 2022) German downt. jazz ensemble led by Pit Baumgartner, multi-inst., composer, producer.  PA: German sing/songwr. JK: Trumpet, composer, arranger

*Diazpora: "Street Market" (Islands 2017) Hamburg, Germany band playing jazz, afrofunk & rock. Feat. David Nesselhauf on bass, guitarist/singer Axel Feige,  trumpeter Han-Christian Stephan, etc.

*Diesler: "Deepest Cuba" (Tie Breakers 2010) DJ/producer Jonathan Radford laid back vibes & uptempo beats from jazz and funk to latin rhythms.

*Chris Joss: "Reshaped" (Hyperacusis 2020) French multi-inst. producer plays jazz, funk, electronica & lounge. Suffers from hyperacusis, a type of reduced tolerance to sound, and cannot perform live.

*The Daktaris: "Modern Technology" (Soul Explosion 1998) Afrobeat project w/musicians using fake African-sounding pseudonyms. Feat. Martin Perna (multi-inst. founder of Antibalas & Ocote Soul Sounds)

*The Whitefield Brothers: "Thunderbird" (In The Raw 2001) Munich, Germany funk & afrobeat band feat. brothers Jan & Max Whitefield (Weissenfeldt) Previously known as "Poets Of Rhythm"

*The Mighty Show-Stoppers: "Hippy Skippy Moon Strut" (Black Feeling 2007) Assembled by Aussie Lance Ferguson (Ldr, lead guit. The Bamboos) using The Bamboos, Cookin' On 3 Burners & guest artists and using pseudonyms for the bands to pay tribute to funk and afrobeat of the past.

*Sun Ra: "Saturn" (Singles-The Definitive 45s Collection Vol. 1 '52-'61 ) Am. free-jazz composer, pianist & bandleader Herman Poole Blount. Pioneer of improvisation & early user of electro. keys & synths. Started the "Afrofuturistic" movement w/Egyptian style or science fiction costumes and regalia.

*Akira Tana: "The Guardman" (Secret Agent Man 2002) American jazz musician plays drums, percussion & keyboards and is a bandleader played with many jazz greats like Brandford Marsalis

*The Jazz Defenders: "Twilight" (King Phoenix 2022) UK quintet led by pianist/composer George Cooper play a modern soul/jazz slant on hard bop, channeling and championing the golden age of Blue Note.

*Jenova 7: "You Dig?" (Dusted Jazz Vol. 3 2019) Boston multi-media artist Michael J. Sirois plays trip hop, downtempo, chill-out & instrumental hip hop.

HOUR 2

*Leon Russell: "Delta Lady" (Leon Russell 1970) American musician/songwriter member of the famous LA session players "The Wrecking Crew" Rock, funk, soul, blues, pop, folk, world & country. Led the Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour & album with Joe Cocker.

*Little Feat: "Dixie Chicken" (Dixie Chicken 1973) Founded by Lowell George when he and Roy Estrada were fired from FZ's MOI.  Melded jazz, folk & country into their own style of rock. LG died in 1979 from an accidental overdose.

*Dr. John: "Let The Good Times Roll" (The Ultimate Dr. John 1972) Mac Rebbenack Am. sing/songwr. began piano at age 6. Style known as bayou funk, funk, R&B, jazz & boogie woogie. Adopted the "Dr. John The Night Tripper" persona in the late 60s incorporating voodoo imagery and elaborate costumes.

*Adrian Quesada: "Ain't No Big Thing feat. Johnny Hernandez" (Look At My Soul: The Latin Shade Of Texas Soul 2018) Austin Tx. multi-inst. producer & composer (Brownout, Black Pumas, Money Chicha, etc.) JH: vox, prod. eng. Little Joe Y La Familia

*El Gran Combo: "Chua Chua Boogaloo" (Single unknown) Puerto Rican orchestra founded 1962 by Raphael Ithier.

*Ronnie Marks: "Some Lonely Heart" (The Soul Of Spanish Harlem 2009) Innovator of 60s "Latin Soul" worked with Mongo & Monguito Santamaria as well as Johnny Pacheco

*Thievery Corporation: "Take My Soul feat. Lou Lou" (Culture Of Fear 2011) Rob Garza & Eric Hilton Am. electronic duo mix dub, jazz, reggae, Indian classical, Middle Eastern, electronica & Brazilian music. LGhelickhani: Am. vox raised in France then returned to US

*Eric Lau: "Lily Of The Desert feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow" (One Of Many 2013) British soul producer uses samples w/a mixture of live & sequenced instrumentation. GAM: Am. soul vox & producer

*Buscemi: "Gipsy Soul feat. Lynn Verlayne" (Nite People 2012) Belgian DJ/producer Dirk Swartenbroek elements of bossa, jazz, house, afrobeat, balkan, dub, etc. LV: Belgian sing/songwr./prod. lives in NYC

*Ursula 1000: "That Hindu That You Do" (Kinda Kinky 2002) NYC DJ/multi-inst., composer Alex Gimeno calls his sound "retro/future" and fuses many musical styles to achieve it. 

*Thunderball: "Stereo Tonic" (Scorpio Rising 2001) Wash DC based ESL artists Steve Raskin, Sid Barcelona & Rob Meyers play electro funk & world music.

*Liftoff: "Marshmeadows" (Sunday Morning Airplay 2011) Steve Raskin, Sid Barcelona, Johnna Raskin & Rob Myers members of Thunderball under a different name on the ESL label

*Sly 5th Ave, The ClubCasa Chamber Orchestra: "Suit & Tie" (The Wrap Up ) Austin Tx multi-inst. comp. arr. producer Sylvester Uzoma Onyejiaka II plays hip hop, soul, r&b & jazz