Bridging the Gap December 4, 2024

*Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: "Cosmic Changes" (JID019 2023) AYounge: Amer. comp. arr. & prod. ASMuhammad: Amer. DJ, comp. prod. & rapper. Their Jazz Is Dead pays homage to jazz greats.
*BADBADNOTGOOD: "Mid Spiral" (Mid Spiral 2024) Canadian inst. band & production team from Toronto.
*Bonobo: "Days To Come" (Days To Come 2006) Brit. musician, prod. & DJ based in LA mixes jazz & electronic music with organic instrumentation to achieve his sound.

*Bootsy Collins: "WantMe2Stay feat. Uche & Brandford Marsalis" (The Power Of The One 2020) Amer. funk, R&B & rock bassist. Bootsy was in James Brown's band & The P-Funk Mob.
*Crushed Velvet & The Velveteers: "Really Can't Get Over You feat. Yanick" (Love & Truth 2021) CV & The V is the alter ego of multi-inst. songwr. eng. & prod. Alan Evans who also co-founded Soulive.
*Fort Knox Five: "Don't Go feat. Joe Quarterman" (Another Decade Of Funk 2016) Wash. DC based artists feat. Steve Raskin, Jon Horvath, Rob Myers & Sid Barcelona playing funk, reggae, hip hop & electronica. JQ: Amer. funk & soul singer.

*Frente Cumbiero: "La Bocachico" (Frente Cumbiero Meets Mad Professor 2011) Bogota Colombia group founded by Mario Galeano & Eblis Alvarez.
*Los Fabulosos Cadillacs: "Flores" (La Luz Del Ritmo 2008) Argentinian rock group introduced 2 Tone ska to Argentina & developed Latin Rock Fusion.
*Sergent Garcia: "Camino De La Vida" (Un Poquito Quema'o 1999) French artist Bruno Garcia plays latin, reggae, Caribbean music & hip hop.

*Low Fidelity Jet Set Orchestra: "Kebab's Revenge" (Searching For A Bit Of Popularity 2008) Formed by prod. comp. Dave Masoch & Paolo "Apollo" Negri on Hammond organ dive into a vintage sound with deep funk roots.
*The Mackrosoft: "Headless Hydra" (Snakerhythms 2018) Prod. comp. musician Aja West conjures up another dose of 'funk fusion' with a plethora of guest artists incl. Dhani Harrison & perc. Joe Porcaro.
*Menahan Street Band: "Snow Day" (The Exciting Sounds Of... 2021) MSB is an Amer. R&B & soul band from NYC formed by guit. prod. Thomas Brenneck while living in an apt. on Menahan Street, Brooklyn.
*Modulo5: "Last Equinox" (Here And Now ) Modulo5 is a project of Italian comp. prod. DJ Dave Masoch.

HOUR 2

*Kojato & The Afro Latin Cougaritas: "Like A Gypsy" (All About Jazz 2011) Led by vocalist multi-inst Kojo Ebenezer Samuels from Monrovia, Liberia & feat. multi-inst. Andre Neundorf (The EEs, BSC) & prod. multi-inst. Oliver Belz (Bahama Soul Club)
*Kora Jazz Trio: "Xam-Xam" (Kora Jazz Trio Pt. 3 2008) Senegalese band KJT was formed in 2002 by Djeli Moussa Diawara, vox, guit. & kora. Abdoulaya Diabate, piano & Moussa Sissokho. percussion.
*Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela: "Coconut Jam" (Rejoice 2020) Nigerian drummer, comp. & Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen & So. Afr. trumpet, flugelhorn & cornet legend Hugh Masekela collab. on this combining of Afrobeat, jazz & world music.

*Mondo Grosso: "Kemuri (Smoke) feat. ACO" (Attune/Detune 2018) Jap. musician, prod. comp. & DJ Shinichi Osawa is Mondo Grosso (Big World in Italian). ACO is a versatile Jap, singer.
*Coma-Chi: "Inori" (Jomon Green 2018) Jap. female rapper, singer & astrologist established her own label, Queen's Room in 2011.
*Pizzicato Five: "Alueo" (The Band Of 20th Century... 2019) Sing/songwr. guit. keys Yasuharu Konishi & singer Maki Nomiya are the remaining members of the Jap. group.

*Poets Of Rhythm: "Survival Of The Freshest" (Discern/Define 2001) German funk outfit founded by Jan Weissenfelt & Boris Geiger in 1992. They are known for their authentic 60s funk sound. They pioneered the retro-modernist funk movement.
*David Nesselhauf: "Transneptunians (1)" (Afrokraut II: The Lowbrow Manifesto 2018) German bassist, multi-inst. DNesselhauf mixes Krautrock with Afrobeat to create his signature sound.
*The Cheebacabra: "The Secret Agenda" (Exile In The Woods 2006) Paul Cheever aka Cheeba plays psych. funk fusion on the Mackrosoft Label. He is the brother of Aja West who founded the label. Cheeba is formerly of the Dust Bros. production team.

*Fleetwood Mac: "Show-Biz Blues" (Then Play On 1969) Fleetwood Mac was founded by guit. Peter Green & drummer Mick Fleetwood as a blues band in 1967 London. PGreen lapsed into personal crisis in 1970 & the group reorganized into a variety of configurations after that.
*Jethro Tull: "My Sunday Feeling" (This Was 1968) Led by vocalist/flutist Ian Anderson, Tull began as a blues rock band & later expanded their sound to include art rock & world influences.
*Mother Earth: "Blues For The Road" (Make A Joyful Noise 1969) Usually fronted by singer Tracy Nelson this cut was sung by keyboardist/singer Andy McMahon who was sometimes featured on lead vox.
*Peter Green: "Apostle" (In The Skies 1979) Guit. sing/songwr. Peter Green founded Fleetwood Mac but left them in 1970.

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