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Greyboy Allstars

On the heels of highly successful reunion tour last year, The Greyboy Allstars met in the studio for the first time in a decade to make What Happened to Television?, which is also the group's first collaboration with DJ Greyboy since their seminal 1995 debut, West Coast Boogaloo. As on that album, which featured former James Brown musical director Fred Wesley, one hears on What Happened to Television? elements of the old-school funk and soul that have always preoccupied the band's namesake DJ, who returns here as co-producer in addition to performing on a track. It was as an extension of Greyboy's weekly residency spinning records at San Diego's now defunct Green Circle Bar that the Allstars first formed in 1993-a diversity of emerging independent musicians who coalesced around a scene-defining DJ and his unique ear for music

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe at Levitt Pavilion

by Geoff Anderson
September 1, 2017

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe Levitt Pavilion Denver, CO August 26, 2017 You don't hear much talk of “The Energy Crisis" anymore. That's because Karl Denson's Tiny Universe has been on the scene, lighting things up and generating gigawatts of energy with its frequent funk fusillades. Over the course of their two ...

Sure Fire Soul Ensemble: Out On The Coast

by Joe Gatto
January 17, 2017

Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, from jny: San Diego, is one of the most talented new bands on the West Coast. Mixing funk, soul, jazz, and Latin & African influences to create unique, exciting music... their “cinematic soul" is like a cross between the music from Jim Jarmusch movies & Blacksploitation films of the 1970s.

Gary Bartz: Students Are Learning But They Are Learning Backwards!

by Joan Gaylord
August 19, 2013

"This is folk music. It is good that we have it in the schools, but we need to get it back more into the street--that's where it came from." When saxophonist Gary Bartz is not headlining his own band or touring with McCoy Tyner, he is a professor in the Jazz Studies department ...

Still Waiting

Featuring the music of Greyboy Allstars
Duration: 3:15
April 17, 2013

What Happened to Television?

By Greyboy Allstars

Label: Sci Fidelity Records / Knowledge Base
Released: 2007
Track listing: V-neck Sweater; What Happened to TV?; Still Waiting; Deck Shoes; How Glad I Am; Back In The Game; Left Coast Boogaloo; Old School Cylons; Knowledge Room; Pigeons Under Water; Give the Drummer Some More.

What Happened to TV?

By Greyboy Allstars

Label: Sci Fidelity Records / Knowledge Base
Released: 2007

The Greyboy Allstars: What Happened to Television?

by Matt Leskovic
September 29, 2007

Flip through albums in the bargain Funk/Soul/R&B bin at your local record store and you'll find a mix of classic Meters, Mayfield, and James Brown LPs. If a copy of the Greyboy Allstars' What Happened To Television? winds up in your stack, you probably wouldn't guess it was recorded in 2007. While many contemporary ...

The Greyboy AllStars: What Happened to Television?

by Doug Collette
August 2, 2007

Having formed almost fifteen years ago in 1993, The Greyboy AllStars are an urban myth of sorts. Their early forays into funk flowed throughout the jamband scene that coalesced in the mid-to-late 1990s, which is where the principals of the quintet found a name for themselves. Now hornman Karl Denson (leader of Tiny Universe) and keyboardist ...