After Hours March 4, 2026

*Kind & Kinky Zoo: "La Jupe Volante" (Released! 2017) Lausanne, Switz. band playing funk, afrobeat & psych. with a garage rock vibe. Olivier Bill flute Pierre-Henri Beynere bass & fuzz Marc Siegenthaler keys & Sylvain Rutti drums & perc.
*Funkallisto: "Piamose Trastevere" (Saturday Night Dogs 2017) Rome based band formed in 2004 in the city of Trastevere,  playing funk, afrobeat, Latin and dance floor jazz. 
*Diazpora: "Street Market" (Islands 2017) Solid funk from Hamburg Germ. feat. bassist David Nesselhauf & drum. Lucas Kochbeck locking down the rhythm section. Sing. guit. Alex Feige joins on this album.

*The Dining Rooms: "Art Is A Cat feat. Beatrice Velasco Moreno" (Art Is A Cat 2020) Milan Italy artists prod. comp. guit. Cesare Malfatti & prod. comp. Stefano Ghittoni play jazz & electronic music in a downt. ambient style.
*The Electones: "Black Veil Down" (If You'll Be Null, I'll Be Void 2009) Norwegian jazz, electronic & pop trio of Hallvard Hagen, Jens Petter Nilsen & singer Rita Augestad Knudsen. Hagen & Nilsen are also the duo Xploding Plastix.
*Eric Lau: "Here feat. Rahel" (One Of Many 2013) Brit. music prod. & DJ from London mixes live & sequenced instumentation. Rahel is a London sing. & bassist.

*Grant Geissman: "$25 Stella" (Bop! Bang! Boom! 2012) Guit. comp. Grant Geissman is a popular contemporary jazz artist. He played with Chuck Mangione in the early 70s & the global hit "Feels So Good" feat. Grant's guit. solo.
*The Greyboy Allstars: "What Happened To TV?" (What Happened To Television? 2007) The Greyboy Allstars met when asked to play DJ Greyjoy's release party in 1994. They had so much fun, they decided to stay together as a band.
*The Haggis Horns: "Putting' On The Beef" (Keep On Movin' 2010) Brit. funk band from Leeds feat. George Cooper (The Jazz Defenders) on keys & John McCallum on vox & guit.

*Italian Secret Service: "Takin' On" (ID Super 2001) Italian Secret Service is Dario Cecchini sax, flute & bass Leonardo Pieri on keys comp.
*Jimi Tenor: "Polygonal" (Saxentric 2016) Finnish musician, comp. & artist Lassi Lehto. 
*John Scofield: "Tomorrow Land" (Uberjam 2002) Grammy winning Amer. jazz guit. & comp.
*Joshua Redman: "The Birthday Song (Part II) (Elastic 2002) Amer. jazz tenor & soprano saxophonist & comp. from Berkeley Ca.

HOUR 2

*Karma Sheen: "Ishq Kalma" (Single 2024) Combining Hindustani classical & psych rock led by Brit. guit. vox, harmonium, basuri & comp. Sameer Khan whose family was steeped in classical Pakistani music.
*MIDIval PunditZ, Karsh Kale & Raghu Dixit: "Train Song" (Gully Boy Soundtrack 2021) Amer. of Indian descent Karsh Kale blends tabla & other India perc. with electronic music. Raghu Dixit is an Indian sing. comp. prod. MIDIval PunditZ is an Indian fusion group.
*The Bombay Royale: "Khubsoorat Bewafa" (The Island Of Dr. Electrico 2014) 11 pc. Aussie band inspired by Bollywood soundtracks & Western music led by Aussie sax & flute player Andy Williamson aka "The Skipper."

*Bobbi Humphrey: "Spanish Harlem" (Flute-In 1971) B Humphrey is an Amer. jazz flutist, sing.  & comp. She was one of the first female instrumentalists signed by Blue Note in 1971. She founded he jazz label Paradise Sounds Records.
*Mongo Santamaria: "Afro Blue" (Afro Roots 1972) Cuban rumba quinto master & Afro-Cuban Latin jazz perc. comp. & bandleader. 
*Cal Tjader: "Aleluia" (La Onda Va Bien 1980) Cal Tjader was an Amer. Latin jazz comp. vibist drum. & bongos. He was described as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician.

*Vito Lalinga: "Rite Rite feat. Nikaleo" (Rite Rite 2022) V Lalinga is an Italian funk maestro comp. prod. & musician also known as Vi Mode Inc. Project. Nikaleo is Italian sing. Veronica Palmisano.
*Lanu: "The Others feat. Meg Washington" (The Double Sunrise 2016) NZ born prod. guit. DJ Lance Ferguson based in Australia. M Washington is Aussie prod. sing/songwr. pianist also born in NZ.
*Lack Of Afro: "Take You Home feat. Joss Stone" (Hello Baby 2016) Brit. multi-inst. prod. re-mixer & DJ Adam Gibbons is LOA. Joss Stone is a Brit. soul singer.

*Frank Zappa: "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" (The Lost Episodes 1996) FZ was an Amer. iconoclast comp. guit. sing. prod. & film maker. This album contains early recordings at Studio Z in Cucamonga Ca.
*Xploding Plastix: "Behind The Eightball" (Behind The Eightball 2001) Norwegian duo of Hallvard Hagen & Jens Petter Nilsen playing electronic music with elements of jazz.
*Wagon Christ: "Sorry I Make You Lush" (Sorry I Make You Lush 2004) Brit elec. music comp. & prod. Luke Vibert is Wagon Christ.
*Fila Brazillia: "D'Avros" (Dicks 2004) Brit. musicians David McSherry & Steve Cobby playing off the wall electronica.

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