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Down to the Bone is 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...
 group led by DJ Stuart Wade, who formed the band with Chris Morgans (who has now left) in 1996. The group is very popular in the UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, where they are "hailed as the kings of UK jazz groove." Their music is a mix of 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 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....
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Down to the Bone is 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...
 group led by DJ Stuart Wade, who formed the band with Chris Morgans (who has now left) in 1996. The group is very popular in the UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, where they are "hailed as the kings of UK jazz groove." Their music is a mix of 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 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....
.

The Music

Down to the Bone is unique in that the leader, Stuart Wade, does not play any instruments at all. Instead, Wade uses a dictaphone
Dictaphone

Dictaphone was an United States company, a producer of dictation machines?sound recording devices most commonly used to record Speech communication for later playback or to be typed into print....
 to hum tunes into, which are then recorded by the band (whose members constantly change).

Current Band Members

  • Stuart Wade
  • James Knight
    James Knight

    James Knight was a director of the Hudson's Bay Company and an explorer who died in an expedition to the Northwest Passage.Knight was born in England and joined the Hudson's Bay Company in 1676 as a carpenter....
     of Talc
    Talc

    Talc is a mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate with the chemical formula Hydrogen2Magnesium34 or Magnesium3Silicon4Oxygen102....
  • Neil Burditt of Afro Elements
  • Phil Nelson
    Phil Nelson

    Phil Nelson is a former tight end for the Oakland Raiders. He played College football for Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football.He was Mr. Irrelevant of the 1981 NFL Draft....
     of Afro Elements
  • Simon T. Bramley of Mr. Gone
  • Tommy Emmerton
  • Tim Smart
    Tim Smart

    Timothy Trudeau Smart is a Hong Kong cricketer.Smart is a right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper and has played cricket in Hong Kong for a number of years....
  • Graeme Flowers
  • Gavin Broom


Discography

  • 1997 From Manhattan to Staten
    From Manhattan to Staten

    From Manhattan to Staten is the 1997 debut album from the British acid jazz band Down to the Bone . The albums full title is From Manhattan to Staten - the album but the the album became less relevant as more albums were released and now the album is more commonly know as stated in the title to this page....
  • 1999 The Urban Grooves : Album II, featuring keyboardist Reuben Wilson
    Reuben Wilson

    Reuben Wilson is a jazz organist, performer of the Hammond B3. He plays acid jazz, though he also performed in the soul jazz idiom. Wilson began performing in the 1960s....
  • 2000 Spread the Word : Album III
  • 2002 Crazy Vibes & Things, featuring Hil St. Soul
  • 2004 Cellar Funk, featuring vocalist Flora Purim
    Flora Purim

    Flora Purim is a Brazilian jazz singer known mainly for her work in the jazz fusion style. She became prominent for her part in Chick Corea's landmark album Return to Forever....
  • 2005 Spread Love Like Wildfire, featuring N'Dambi
    N'dambi

    N'dambi is a soul singer from Dallas, TX. She used to sing background vocals for Erykah Badu.She has released two albums in the United States....
     and flutist Jeremy Steig
    Jeremy Steig

    Jeremy Steig, , the son of The New Yorker cartoonist William Steig, is notable as one of the few jazz flute playing flute exclusively, as opposed to doubling from other woodwinds....
  • 2007 Supercharged, featuring vibraphonist Roy Ayers
    Roy Ayers

    Roy Ayers is a funk, soul music and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a jazz player, releasing several albums with Arista Records before his tenure at Polydor Records, during which he progressed a new R&B style, slowly molding the new Disco genre....


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