Jazz Articles about The Poets of Rhythm

The Poets of Rhythm: What Goes 'Round

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2002

Where would you rather be – 2002 or the funky heyday of 1966? This is the musical question poised by the funk collective, Poets of Rhythm. The group inspires a cultish following from rare groove fanatics with their dusty, groovy and nostalgic rhythms that hark back to a time before samplers and drum machines. The German collective put out their first US full-length album Discern/Define in 2001 on Quannum that solidified their previously elusive existence. To cement it further is ...