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The Brand New Heavies are an acid jazz
Acid jazz

Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly Music loop beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic music dance/pop music: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd are often credited as forerunners of aci...
 and funk
Funk

Funk is an United States Music genre that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music....
 group formed in 1985 in Ealing
Ealing

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, a suburb
Suburb

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 of London
London

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, England
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.

Brand New Heavies began in the 1980s as an instrumental acid jazz
Acid jazz

Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly Music loop beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic music dance/pop music: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd are often credited as forerunners of aci...
 group called Brother International.

The group came up with the Heavies name after signing their first record contract, borrowing from a liner note on a James Brown single declaring the artist "Minister of New Super Heavy Funk".






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The Brand New Heavies are an acid jazz
Acid jazz

Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly Music loop beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic music dance/pop music: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd are often credited as forerunners of aci...
 and funk
Funk

Funk is an United States Music genre that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music....
 group formed in 1985 in Ealing
Ealing

Ealing is a town in the London Borough of Ealing. It is a suburban development situated 7.7 miles west of Charing Cross. It is one of the major metropolitan area centres identified in the London Plan and is often referred to as the "Queen of the Suburbs"....
, a suburb
Suburb

Suburbs are commonly defined as the residential areas which surround the central area of the urban area of a town or city. In the United States, suburbs have a prevalence of usually detached single-family homes.....
 of London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England
England

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.

Biography

The Brand New Heavies began in the 1980s as an instrumental acid jazz
Acid jazz

Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly Music loop beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic music dance/pop music: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd are often credited as forerunners of aci...
 group called Brother International.

The group came up with the Heavies name after signing their first record contract, borrowing from a liner note on a James Brown single declaring the artist "Minister of New Super Heavy Funk". As The Brand New Heavies, they gained a cult following in the London club scene and soon signed to Cooltempo as acid jazz
Acid jazz

Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly Music loop beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic music dance/pop music: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd are often credited as forerunners of aci...
 replaced rare groove in clubs. The band would issued a debut recording for Eddie Pillar's Acid Jazz
Acid jazz

Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly Music loop beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic music dance/pop music: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd are often credited as forerunners of aci...
 label in 1990 with Jay Ella Ruth as lead singer.

A single, "Got to Give", came out on Cooltempo before the Brand New Heavies signed to Acid Jazz Records
Acid Jazz Records

Acid Jazz Records is a record label based in east London. It takes its name from Acid Jazz, a genre of jazz music. Alternative version states that the genre itself was named after the record label....
 and released Brand New Heavies
Brand New Heavies (album)

Brand New Heavies is the eponymous debut album by United Kingdom acid jazz and funk group the Brand New Heavies. It was released in 1990 and featured virtually no vocals....
 to critical acclaim. The band signed to a division of Chrysalis Records
Chrysalis Records

Chrysalis Records was a British record label that was created in 1969. The name was both a reference to the pupal stage of a Pupa#Chrysalis and an amalgam of its founders names, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis ....
 in the UK, and American distribution was picked up by influential label Delicious Vinyl
Delicious Vinyl

Delicious Vinyl is an United States independent record label founded by Matt Dike and Michael Ross in 1987 in music and based in Los Angeles, California....
, and N'Dea Davenport
N'Dea Davenport

N'Dea Davenport is a Grammy Award-nominated American Contemporary R&B/soul music singer-songwriter best known for her role in the Brand New Heavies, a United Kingdom funk/rhythm and blues band , a group responsible for the Acid Jazz wave in the early 90s....
 (who had signed an artist development deal
Artist development deal

An artist development deal is usually the first of a recording artist's contracts with a major record label. In lieu of high royalties or other desirable rights, the label will promise to develop the skills and public profile of the artist....
 with Delicious Vinyl
Delicious Vinyl

Delicious Vinyl is an United States independent record label founded by Matt Dike and Michael Ross in 1987 in music and based in Los Angeles, California....
) joined the group. A revamped version of the first album with vocals by N'Dea Davenport was then released, and the singles "Dream Come True", "Never Stop" and "Stay This Way", all with Davenport on lead vocals, became hits on both sides of the Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean

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, with the latter becoming a music video directed by Douglas Gayeton that saw heavy rotation on MTV.

The group's appearance with MC Serch
MC Serch

MC Serch is an United States hip hop music rapping and former member of 3rd Bass....
 (formerly of 3rd Bass
3rd Bass

3rd Bass was an American hip-hop group that rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was notable for being one of the first successful interracial hip-hop groups....
) and Q-Tip
Q-Tip (rapper)

Q-Tip , is an American hip hop music artist, singer, and occasional actor from Queens, New York City, perhaps best known as the leader of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest....
 (of A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest is an United States Hip hop music group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad....
) at a performance in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, inspired the group to incorporate elements of hip hop music
Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
. Their next album was the critically acclaimed Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1, which included collaborations with Guru
Guru (rapper)

Guru , is an United States rapper of Trinidadian descent, and the lyrical half of the hip-hop group Gang Starr, together with DJ Premier. With his Jazzmatazz album series, he is also considered to be one of the pioneers of hiphop/jazz crossover....
 of Gang Starr
Gang Starr

Gang Starr was an influential East Coast hip hop group that consisted of Guru and DJ Premier. The group was known mainly for their unique style, which combines elements of New York swing jazz and hip hop music....
 and The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde is an alternative hip hop group from the West coast of the United States. The group was formed in South Central Los Angeles , where the group's members grew up....
, among others, but lacked any female vocals.

Brother Sister
Brother Sister

Brother Sister is an album by Brand New Heavies. ...
 (1994) was the last album for a while with N'Dea Davenport, who had left to complete her solo album (which she had put on hold to join the Heavies). The album spawned more singles, though one of them, a cover of Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur

Maria Muldaur is a roots-folk music and blues singer best known for her song "Midnight at the Oasis"....
's "Midnight at the Oasis
Midnight at the Oasis

"Midnight at the Oasis" is a 1973 rock song which was performed by singer Maria Muldaur and was her best known hit, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100....
," was popular only in the UK because it was not included in the US version of the album.

Siedah Garrett
Siedah Garrett

Siedah Garrett is an Academy Award-nominated, Grammy-winning United States singer-songwriter....
 joined the group for their next album, Shelter (1997). It contained the minor hit, the Carole King
Carole King

Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
-penned song "You've Got a Friend" that was originally made famous by James Taylor
James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
. Again, though, this song did not appear on the US version of the album. The album also contained the hit "Sometimes". The remix of "Sometimes" included the rap vocals of Q-Tip from Tribe.

The Brand New Heavies then released their greatest hits album, Trunk Funk (2000) with Carleen Anderson
Carleen Anderson

Carleen Anderson is an United States soul singer who has had success in the United Kingdom. She is the daughter of the singer Vicki Anderson and stepdaughter of Bobby Byrd, and was most well known as the lead singer in the Young Disciples as well as for her own solo career....
 on vocals for some newly recorded songs, followed by the Japan only album We Won't Stop (2003) featuring a variety of vocalists and Allaboutthefunk (2004) featuring British singer Nicole Russo on vocals.

In April 2006, the Brand New Heavies reunited with N'Dea Davenport and former label Delicious Vinyl. A new album, Get Used to It was released on 27 June 2006 via Starbucks
Starbucks

Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and List of coffeehouse chains based in Seattle, Washington, United States. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 16,120 stores in 44 countries....
 and more traditional music retail outlets. The album was recorded in New York
New York City

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 and London; and the lead single "I Don't Know Why (I Love You)" was issued in early May. The single was notable for being one of very few late releases to feature the trademarked "A Tom Moulton Mix
A Tom Moulton Mix

A Tom Moulton Mix is a phrase indicating that a dance record had been mixed by Tom Moulton. Prior to Moulton , no major player had prefaced their name with "A" and followed it with "Mix"....
", as the legendary disco pioneer had been asked to contribute mixes. Later that year, their song "Jump 'N' Move" was featured on the soundtrack
Soundtrack

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 for the 2006 computer animated film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, Happy Feet
Happy Feet

Happy Feet is an Cinema of Australia-produced 2006 computer animation comedy-drama musical film film, directed and co-written by George Miller ....
, and the in-game soundtrack for 2004's NBA Live 2005. The band toured at the end of 2006.

Members


Band Member Instrument Dates
Jan Kincaid
(born 17 May 1966 in Ealing)		 drums
Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
, keyboards
Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
 1985-present
Simon Bartholomew
(born 16 October 1965 in Ealing)		 guitar
Guitar

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, vocals
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
 1985-present
Andrew Levy
(born 20 July 1966 in Ealing)		 bass
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
, keyboards
Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
, writer
Writer

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, producer
Record producer

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 1985-present
Lascelles Gordon
percussion
Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....
, guitar
Guitar

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 debut album (1991)
Jim Wellman
tenor sax, soprano sax, keyboards
Keyboard instrument

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 debut album (1991)
N'Dea Davenport
N'Dea Davenport

N'Dea Davenport is a Grammy Award-nominated American Contemporary R&B/soul music singer-songwriter best known for her role in the Brand New Heavies, a United Kingdom funk/rhythm and blues band , a group responsible for the Acid Jazz wave in the early 90s....
 
(born 6 May 1966 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA)		 Vocals
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
 1990-1995, 2005-present
Siedah Garrett
Siedah Garrett

Siedah Garrett is an Academy Award-nominated, Grammy-winning United States singer-songwriter....
 
(born 24 June 1960 in Los Angeles) 		Vocals
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
 1997
Carleen Anderson
Carleen Anderson

Carleen Anderson is an United States soul singer who has had success in the United Kingdom. She is the daughter of the singer Vicki Anderson and stepdaughter of Bobby Byrd, and was most well known as the lead singer in the Young Disciples as well as for her own solo career....
 
 Vocals
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
 
Nicole Russo
Vocals
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
 2004
Sy Smith
Sy Smith

Sy Smith is an African-American Rhythm and blues/neo-soul singer/songwriter....
 
 Vocals
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
 


Discography


Studio albums

  • 1990: The Brand New Heavies
    Brand New Heavies (album)

    Brand New Heavies is the eponymous debut album by United Kingdom acid jazz and funk group the Brand New Heavies. It was released in 1990 and featured virtually no vocals....
  • 1991: The Brand New Heavies (Featuring N'Dea Davenport
    N'Dea Davenport

    N'Dea Davenport is a Grammy Award-nominated American Contemporary R&B/soul music singer-songwriter best known for her role in the Brand New Heavies, a United Kingdom funk/rhythm and blues band , a group responsible for the Acid Jazz wave in the early 90s....
    )
  • 1992: Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1 (Featuring vocals by various hip hop groups and rappers)
  • 1994: Brother Sister
    Brother Sister

    Brother Sister is an album by Brand New Heavies. ...
     (Featuring N'Dea Davenport
    N'Dea Davenport

    N'Dea Davenport is a Grammy Award-nominated American Contemporary R&B/soul music singer-songwriter best known for her role in the Brand New Heavies, a United Kingdom funk/rhythm and blues band , a group responsible for the Acid Jazz wave in the early 90s....
    )
  • 1997: Shelter (Featuring Siedah Garrett
    Siedah Garrett

    Siedah Garrett is an Academy Award-nominated, Grammy-winning United States singer-songwriter....
    )
  • 2003: We Won't Stop (2003, Japan Only release; Featuring vocals by various singers)
  • 2004: Allaboutthefunk (Featuring Nicole Russo)
  • 2006: Get Used To It (Featuring N'Dea Davenport
    N'Dea Davenport

    N'Dea Davenport is a Grammy Award-nominated American Contemporary R&B/soul music singer-songwriter best known for her role in the Brand New Heavies, a United Kingdom funk/rhythm and blues band , a group responsible for the Acid Jazz wave in the early 90s....
    )


Compilations and remixes

  • 1990: Original Flava
  • 2000: Trunk Funk - The Best of The Brand New Heavies (Featuring Carleen Anderson
    Carleen Anderson

    Carleen Anderson is an United States soul singer who has had success in the United Kingdom. She is the daughter of the singer Vicki Anderson and stepdaughter of Bobby Byrd, and was most well known as the lead singer in the Young Disciples as well as for her own solo career....
    )
  • 2001: Excursions, Remixes & Rare Grooves
  • 2002: Acid Jazz Years
  • 2006: The Brand New Heavies: Platinum Collection
  • 2007: Elephantitis - The Funk + House Remixes
  • 2008: Get Used to It - The Tom Moulton Mixes (Featuring N'Dea Davenport
    N'Dea Davenport

    N'Dea Davenport is a Grammy Award-nominated American Contemporary R&B/soul music singer-songwriter best known for her role in the Brand New Heavies, a United Kingdom funk/rhythm and blues band , a group responsible for the Acid Jazz wave in the early 90s....
    )


Singles

  • "Got to Give" (1988)
  • "Dream Come True (Brand New Mix)" (Acid Jazz, 1990, different version from the single 2 years later)
  • "Never Stop" (1991) UK#43
  • "Stay This Way" (1991) UK#24
  • "Dream Come True '92" (1992) UK#24
  • "Ultimate Trunk Funk EP" (1992) UK#19 (Stay This Way/Mr. Tanaka/Don't Let It Go...)
  • "Don't Let It Go to Your Head" (1992) UK#24
  • "Stay This Way" (1992) UK#40
  • "Bonafied Funk/Death Threat" (1992)
  • "Dream on Dreamer" (1994) UK#15
  • "Back to Love" (1994) UK#23
  • "Midnight at the Oasis
    Midnight at the Oasis

    "Midnight at the Oasis" is a 1973 rock song which was performed by singer Maria Muldaur and was her best known hit, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100....
    " (1994) UK#13
  • "Spend Some Time" (1994) UK#26
  • "Brother Sister" (1994)
  • "Close to You" (1995) UK#38
  • "Mind Trips" (1995)
  • "World Keeps Spinning" (1996, from The Truth About Cats & Dogs
    The Truth About Cats & Dogs

    The Truth About Cats & Dogs is a 1996 in film American film, a romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin, and Jamie Foxx....
     soundtrack)
  • "Sometimes" (1997) UK#11
  • "You Are the Universe" (1997) UK#21
  • "You've Got a Friend
    You've Got a Friend

    "You've Got a Friend" is a Grammy Award winning song from the early 1970s which marked the singer-songwriter movement. The song was written by Carole King and appeared on her 1971 album Tapestry ....
    " (1997) UK#9
  • "Shelter" (1997) UK#31
  • "Top 5 Heavy Hits" (1997)
  • "You Can Do It" (1997)
  • "Saturday Nite" (1999) UK#35
  • "Apparently Nothing" (1999) UK#32
  • "Worst Case Scenario/Saturday Nite (Jay Dee Remix)" (2000, split EP with Fat Lip
    Fat Lip

    "Fat Lip" is the first single off the pop punk band Sum 41's second album All Killer No Filler. It is the band's most successful single, topping the Billboard Modern Rock chart, as well as MTV's Total Request Live and MuchMusic's MuchMusic Countdown in the summer of 2001....
  • "What Do You Take Me For" (Flower Records, 2003)
  • "Boogie" (OneTwo Records/Edel Records, 2004) UK#66
  • "Can We/Sometimes (Bullseye Remixes)" (2005, split EP with SWV
    SWV

    SWV, also known as Sisters with Voices, is an United States Grammy-award nominated female Rhythm and blues/Pop music trio from New York. Formed in 1990, SWV had a series of hits, including "Weak ", "Right Here/Human Nature", "I'm So Into You"....
  • "Surrender" (OneTwo Records, 2005)
  • "Get Used to It" (2006)
  • "I Don't Know Why (I Love You)" (2006)


Live

  • "Live At The IndigO² London" (16 October 2008)


External links

  • at MySpace
    MySpace

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  • Official Site
  • - Official Site of N'Dea Davenport
  • - Official website of Siedah Garrett
  • - Official Site of Carleen Anderson
  • - Official Site of Nicole Russo
  • - Official Site of Sy Smith