One of my favourite singers, Charlie Wilson, with his band, The Gap Band. Unfortunately I've never seen him live yet. He has been playing twice at North Sea Jazz Festival I think but I had to perform myself during that weekend.. He is a singer I didn't know who he was in the past because of all his collaborations with other artists, Mint Condition, Snoop Dogg.. So when I heard albums from The Gap Band I finally got to know who he was and where he musically was coming from. His voice is on of the nicest and most recognizable in Funk and R&B. When you hear a really good singer ad-libbing and sounding a bit like Stevie Wonder but a bit more blunt and often using the sounds "owee", it's him :-)
One of the funkiest songs I know. Humpin'
This is one of my favourite tracks of this album. Also don't forget "Burn Rubber On Me"!
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! - One of my favourite singers, Charlie Wilson, with his band, The Gap Band. Unfortunately I've never seen him live yet. He has been playing twice at North Sea Jazz Festival I think but I had to perform myself during that weekend..He is a singer I didn't know who he was in the past because of all his collaborations with other artists, Mint Condition, Snoop Dogg.. So when I heard albums from The Gap Band I finally got to know who he was and where he musically was coming from. His voice is on of the nicest and most recognizable in Funk and R&B. When you hear a really good singer ad-libbing and sounding a bit like Stevie Wonder but a bit more blunt and often using the sounds owee, it's him :-)One of the funkiest songs I know. Humpin'This is one of my favourite tracks of this album. Also don't forget Burn Rubber On Me!
