Indian folk music is at the root of both albums, but whereas Voyage saw Ghanekar revel in an Indo-jazz fusion colored by Americana, on Voyage 2 his palette is much more global in scope. To his already ...

Jazz Snobs Funk Addicts: Season 2: The Return of JSFA!! album review by Ian Patterson, published on March 15, 2014. ... Its 2009 eponymous debut mixed electro-acoustic jazz-funk and mellifluous ...

Beyond its jazz roots, “Cantaloupe Island” has become a cultural reference point. Its 1993 sampling by Us3 in “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” introduced a new generation to Hancock’s work ...

For those feeling the hypnotizing musicianship and poetic prose on To Pimp, peep our 10-album primer of jazz/funk/spoken word projects that you should also check out. Carlton Wade is a writer ...

The Funky Freqs came up playing the post-Corea jazz-rock style known as free funk — music with fewer complicated melodies and more earthy grooving. Their new album is Hymn of the Third Galaxy.

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It’s a jazz-funk album, first released in May, 1997. The first track, "Whispering, Came Violets," has a vaguely creepy, dark vibe. A few other tracks are faster, cheerier and some are quite mellow.