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Brooklyn Funk Essentials is a music collective who mix jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, 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....
, and hip hop
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....
, featuring musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s and poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
s from different cultures. The band was conceived in 1993 by producer Arthur Baker
Arthur Baker (musician)

Arthur Baker is an United States record producer and DJ best known for his work with Hip hop music artists like Afrika Bambaataa, Planet Patrol and the British group New Order....
 and bassist and musical director Lati Kronlund. In the mid-1990s the group became a staple of the 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....
 club scene.

Their debut album Cool and Steady and Easy (1994) scored an underground hit with the rendition of Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Sanders is an United States jazz saxophonist. Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound." Albert Ayler fa...
' "The Creator Has a Master Plan".






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Brooklyn Funk Essentials is a music collective who mix jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, 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....
, and hip hop
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....
, featuring musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s and poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
s from different cultures. The band was conceived in 1993 by producer Arthur Baker
Arthur Baker (musician)

Arthur Baker is an United States record producer and DJ best known for his work with Hip hop music artists like Afrika Bambaataa, Planet Patrol and the British group New Order....
 and bassist and musical director Lati Kronlund. In the mid-1990s the group became a staple of the 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....
 club scene.

Their debut album Cool and Steady and Easy (1994) scored an underground hit with the rendition of Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Sanders is an United States jazz saxophonist. Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound." Albert Ayler fa...
' "The Creator Has a Master Plan". The following album, In The Buzz Bag (1998), included Turkish folk music
Turkish folk music

Turkish folk music has combined the distinct cultural values of all those civilisations which have lived in Anatolia and the Ottoman Empire territories in Europe and Asia....
 rhythms and instruments, recorded in consortium with the Turkish
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 clarinettist Hüsnü Senlendirici
Hüsnü Senlendirici

H?sn? Senlendirici is a Turkey clarinettist, born 12 July 1976, in Bergama.Senlendirici combines the melodies of his Anatolian heritage with the jazz sensibilities of the west....
.

Musicians involved

Musicians involved in Brooklyn Funk Essentials' projects include:
  • Hanifah Walidah (vocals)
  • Joi Cardwell
    Joi Cardwell

    Joi Cardwell is a female African American dance music, House music and Contemporary R&B singer-songwriter....
     (vocals)
  • Sha-Key (vocals)
  • Papa Dee
    Papa Dee

    David Christopher Daniel Wahlgren , better known by the stage name Papa Dee, is a Sweden Rapping, ragga and dancehall musician. His most commercially successful track is his version of the Cat Stevens song "The First Cut Is the Deepest"....
     (vocals)
  • Everton Sylvester (vocals)
  • Ipec Scnot (vocals)
  • Stephanie McKay
    Stephanie McKay

    Stephanie McKay is a soul singer and songwriter from the Bronx in New York, whose music encompasses styles include elements of classic rock, funk, pop and hip hop....
     (vocals)
  • Everton Sylvester (poets)
  • David Allen
    David Allen

    David Allen, Dave Allen, David Allan, or Dave Allan may refer to:Acting, entertainment and broadcasting* Dave Allen , Irish comedian...
     (poets)
  • Jazzy Nice (DJ)
  • Yuka Honda
    Yuka Honda

    Yuka Honda is a Japanese musician who resides in New York City. She is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, record producer, and co-founder of the band Cibo Matto....
     (keyboard)
  • Joshua Roseman (trombone)
  • Paul Shapiro (saxophone)
  • Yancy Drew Lambert (vocals, drums)
  • E.J. Rodriguez (percussion)
  • Lati Kronlund (guitar, bass)
  • Yildiran Göz (oud
    Oud

    The oud is a pear-shaped, stringed instrument, which is often seen as the predecessor of the western lute, distinguished primarily by being without frets, commonly used in Middle Eastern music....
    )
  • "Bassy" Bob Brockman (trumpet, flugelhorn)
  • David Jensen
    David Jensen

    David "Kid" Jensen , is a Canada-born British radio DJ....
     (tenor saxophone)


Discography


Albums

  • Watcha Playin (2008)
  • Make 'Em Like It (2000)
  • In the Buzzbag
    In the Buzzbag

    In the BuzzBag is an album by United States Funk band Brooklyn Funk Essentials and Turkey band La?o Tayfa....
     (1998)
  • Cool and Steady and Easy (1995)


Singles/EPs

  • Mambo Con Dancehall [12"] (2000)
  • Mambo Con Dancehall [CD] (2000)
  • Make 'Em Like It Sampler (2000)
  • Magick Karpet Ride (1999)
  • Big Apple Boogaloo (1997)
  • Creator Has a Master Plan [Cassette Single] (1995)
  • Creator Has a Master Plan [CD Single] (1995)