Results for "Funk"

Eddie Christmas

Eddie Christmas is known for his fat pocket, backbeat and second line drumming, with a distinctive New Orleans sound. He has played with New Orleans Suspects, Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, Tab Benoit, Billy Iuso, Eric Lindell, The Black Crowes, Chris Robinson, George Porter Jr., Big Chief Bo Dollis and The Wild Magnolias and Bonerama, and Sol Roots to name a few...."

The Filthy Six

The Filthy Six are the most exciting, authentic soul jazz outfit in the UK today and have established themselves as one of the most electric live acts on the scene. Their soaring horns, blistering guitar and gut-wrenching organ are fuelled by one of the hardest grooving rhythm sections around, producing a hip-shakingly powerful mix of jazz, funk and boogaloo, totally in keeping with the finest traditions of the late 60s Blue Note/Prestige sound.

Led by Trumpeter Nick Etwell (Tom Jones/Beck/David Axelrod/Mumford & Sons), this band of musical gunslingers have worked with some of the biggest names in music: Amy Winehouse, Mavis Staples, Ronnie Spector, Mark Ronson, Jill Scott, Jack White, Dionne Warwick, The Foo Fighters, Robbie Williams, Duran Duran, Chrissie Hynde, Noel Gallagher, Disclosure, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Fred Wesley and Spiritualized to name a few. 

Paul St-Amand

Born: 1981

Paul St-Amand is a trumpeter, singer, and composer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Packing a sweet sound and lyrical voice, he’s become a mainstay of the city’s live music scene. He performs regularly with his trio and quartet, and appears often as a sideman with many of the region’s finest musicians. He’s also a member of the popular Latin band Son Latino.

Gardyn Jazz Orchestra

Composed of world-class musicians from across the Philadelphia region, the Gardyn Jazz Orchestra has an unmistakable style and ability to inspire people - with enthusiasm, virtuosity and incredible sounds from each chart played. Experiencing the band live is always a trip! Each show is juiced with hip arrangements, strong musical soloists, and unkempt hard groovin’ swing provided by the rhythm section. Derived from the Saxon words GAR, meaning "a weapon", and DYN meaning "sound or alarm", combined with the termination ER gives the name "Gair-den-er", which means "a warrior"

Nick Zielinski

Born: March 11

I am a drummer, improvisor, instrument builder, and general musical DIYer. I channel my creative energy into self-producing, self-recording, and self-releasing original music and content. I also like cat videos, short walks on flat, paved surfaces and using two spaces after a period when I’m typing.__

In response to COVID and the continual downward spiral of the music industry, I am presently retooling my creative practice to focus on solo performance. I have spent the past year conceptualizing and creating audio applications for my portable-microchip-processor—computing box which serve to replace the human beings that someone like me usually finds himself playing with. I have created three so far. They are all named “Steve.” I like to think of it as a kind of dystopian take on the dehumanizing effects of robotic automation and the unrelenting mandate from the overlords of the capitalist death-cult to keep us all marching toward peak efficiency and maximum profit.

Miguel Tarin Torres

Born: February 8, 2000

Miguel Tarin Torres is a bassist and composer based in NE Ohio. Born and raised in San Luis Potosi, Mexico in the year 2000, he started studying bass at the age of twelve years old, leading up to eventually teach music in his high school as well as individual lessons out of his home. Miguel developed his primordial musical foundation based on funk music as well as rock and latin rhythms, whilst always loving electronic music of all sorts.

Miguel moved to Ohio in October of 2017 to further pursue his musical education and to hone his chops and compositional skills as well as playing with local musicians and groups such as Free Black!, Matthew Alec and The Soul Electric, Mango Man and The Funketeers, Most Wanted Vibes, among others. His main focus now is trying to connect the dots between all the genres and musical nuances that have influenced him and sew them into one cohesive musical experience that he can call his own.

Michel Seba

Born: December 29, 1973

  Michel Seba was born in 1973 nearby Arlon and grew up there amidst a family of passionate musicians. The sounds of his childhood are the bagpipe and the hurdy-gurdy. He starts his education with many traineeships at the Academie Internationale d’Eté thanks to Chris Joris and Didier Labarre. After he finishes secondary school, the next logical step for him is to leave the south of Luxemburg and to go the Royal Conservatory in Brussels to study under the direction of Frank Michiels and Diederik Wissels.

His ability to mix different styles and his growing talent make him famous in no time and he is asked to join the greatest: Eric Legnini, Eddy Louiss, Toots Thielemans or even Eric Truffaz, Paco Sery and many others. He feels comfortable in every register, whether it is jazz, folk or world music. He proves that regularly when participating at festivals such as the Jazz Festival in Montréal, the Jazz Marathon in Brussels or the very famous Montreux Jazz Festival.  Having gained his place in the Belgian music scene, he is often asked to give classes and workshops in Belgium at the Aktd of Libramont and abroad, more particularly in Burkina Faso and Vietnam.

Acacia Grace

Born: June 24, 1978

As a Singer and songwriter, Acacia Grace is the perfect example of a modern woman in the music industry. From DC to California, she thrived in musical creativity.

Influenced by artists such as Maysa, Leelah James, Lalah Hathaway, and Rachelle Ferell, her music cuts across generational and cultural lines with a vocal complexity that both soothes the spirit and inspires a multitude of audiences.

Dadmandog

Born: September 13, 1993

Anna Iachino

Born: January 22, 1961

Anna Iachino from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, of Italian descent is the songwriter, vocalist, rapper, spoken word artist, poet, electronic music composer, dancer, and storyteller with a comical bent.  Arnold Ludvig from the Faroe Islands is the composer, arranger, and award-winning virtuoso bass player.  Together, they are a dynamic husband and wife team and the creators of MonkeyRat founded in 2006, in the Faroe Islands.  MonkeyRat delivers multi-genre music rooted mainly in Funk. The band was formed in Copenhagen, Denmark with award winning guitarist, Alain Apaloo from Togo, Africa and superb Danish drummer Jens Stoklund.