Mike Dilorenzo

Pianist/keyboardist Mike DiLorenzo revives '70s funk with jazz flavor on new album

Source: Lauren Rogers
August 4, 2011

Call it old school but the sweltering mélange of jazz, funk, and soul that characterizes pianist/keyboardist Mike DiLorenzo's new album Bring It Back defines timelessness. The early '70s was a golden age for R&B music as artists as diverse as Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder adopted elements of jazz and filtered them through a pop framework, creating infectious, raw streetwise rhythms that lit dance clubs on fire. Their influence was so extraordinary that it can be felt throughout ...
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