Vinyl Wednesday: Brand New Funk - Brand New Funk 78
This record is a typical album I would skip in the record store.. boring cover, no Fred Wesley. No famous musicians except drummer Douglas Wimbish (maybe you miss this name because later he calls himself Doug Wimbish). This is a very very funky album and you should definitely buy it when you find it! Too funky... Mixed and produced by Sylvia Robinson, the famous founder/CEO of hiphop label Sugar Hill. Well, when you click around on Discogs, then you learn that the band members are in fact significant musicians: Cecil Powell also has writing credits for funk band Dayton, singer Craig Derry has more than hundred vocal credits, of course Living Colour bassist Doug Wimbish, guitarist/producer/recording artist Skip McDonald or saxophone player Seldon Powell, never heard before, but appearently a well-known session and jazz player.. Was Seldon Powell the father or uncle of piano player Hubert Powell, and singer Cecil Powell? Thanks to DJ Maestro for passing it on to me! Link Discogs
So the first time we played the music from Royalty For Real wasn't in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but in Bengaluru and Mumbai, all the way in India in 2023!Here you'll see me play Au Privave, Classy Cats and Royalty For Real, together with Timothy Banchet (piano), Marius Beets (bass) and Sven Rozier (drums).Au Privave is a well-known blues by Charlie Parker which I often like to start with, almost like a soundcheck tune. Although most of the time a soundcheck is done I found out it's a good idea to play a tune everybody of the band knows very well so we all can get used to the sound of the stage, the presence of the audience and it also gives the sound engineer the chance to adjust microphones last minute. During the soundcheck, the sound of the room is significantly different because of the lack of audience. All that flesh and clothes work a little bit like a totally empty room versus a room with furniture and carpets, if you know what I mean :-)Acoustics are so interesting and full of surprises.. Anyways.. hope you like it! - This record is a typical album I would skip in the record store.. boring cover, no Fred Wesley.No famous musicians except drummer Douglas Wimbish (maybe you miss this name because later he calls himself Doug Wimbish). This is a very very funky album and you should definitely buy it when you find it! Too funky...Mixed and produced by Sylvia Robinson, the famous founder/CEO of hiphop label Sugar Hill. Well, when you click around on Discogs, then you learn that the band members are in fact significant musicians:Cecil Powell also has writing credits for funk band Dayton, singer Craig Derry has more than hundred vocal credits, of course Living Colour bassist Doug Wimbish, guitarist/producer/recording artist Skip McDonald or saxophone player Seldon Powell, never heard before, but appearently a well-known session and jazz player.. Was Seldon Powell the father or uncle of piano player Hubert Powell, and singer Cecil Powell? Thanks to DJ Maestro for passing it on to me!Link DiscogsListen to this grooving instrumental tune:
