Brooklyn Funk Essentials is a music collective who mix jazz , funk , and hip hop , featuring musicians and poets 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 club scene.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
Their debut album Cool and Steady and Easy (1995) scored an underground hit with the rendition of Pharoah Sanders ' "The Creator Has a Master Plan". The following album, In the BuzzBag Turkish folk music rhythms and instruments, recorded in consortium with the Turkish clarinettist 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:
Discography
Albums
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mambo Con Dancehall [12"] (2000)
Mambo Con Dancehall [CD] (2000)
Make Them Like It (Sampler) (2000)
Magick Karpet Ride (1999)
Big Apple Boogaloo (1997)
Creator Has a Master Plan [Cassette Single] (1995)
Creator Has a Master Plan [CD Single] (1995)
International National Artists
References
