Brooklyn Funk Essentials is an acid-jazz, funk, and hip hop collective feat… Read Full Bio ↴Brooklyn Funk Essentials is an acid-jazz, funk, and hip hop collective featuring musicians and poets from different cultures. The band was conceived in 1993 by producer Arthur Baker and bassist and musical director Lati Kronlund. Lati Kronlund played the bass, and other members included Hanifah Walidah (aka Sha-key), Joi Cardwell, Papa Dee and Stephanie McKay (vocals), Everton Sylvester and David Allen (dub poetry), Josh Roseman (trombone), Bob Brockmann (trumpet), Paul Shapiro (sax & flute), Yancy Drew and Tony Allen (drums), E.J. Rodriguez and Danny Sadownic (percussion), Desmond Foster and Masa Shimizu (guitar), ATN Stadwijk and Yuka Honda (keys), Bill Ware (vibes) and dj’s Jazzy Nice and Smash on turntables.
In the mid-1990s the group became a staple of the New York City club scene. Their debut album "Cool and Steady and Easy" (1994) scored an underground hit with the rendition of Pharoah Sanders's "The Creator Has a Master Plan". "Cool and Steady and Easy" (1994) also featured prominent guests like Maceo Parker, The Tower Of Power Horns, Michigan & Smiley and even Dizzy Gilespie.
The album, "In The Buzz Bag"(1998), included Turkish folk music rythms and instruments, recorded with the Turkish band, Laço Tayfa. In The BuzzBag became a milestone in collaborative projects and earned BFE a Grammy nomination. It also escalated the group to a stadium capacity act in Turkey.
In 2000, BFE released their third album "Make Them Like It", which concluded where the first album left off: a happy mélange of funk, Latin, reggae, jazz, house, dub, electro and hip hop which featured the fan favorites ‘I Got Cash’, ‘Mambo Con Dance Hall’ and ‘Woman Thing’.
After the 2001 world tour the band members took a hiatus and pursued a number of noted solo interests.
Offers of recording and touring where plentiful, and BFE songs kept being featured on compilation albums around the world, and in the summer of 2006, a core of BFE members got back together again to do a tour of three world continents as BFE Sound System (mixing classic BFE with electro and dub). By the end of 2006, the sound system model had been abandoned for a return to the group’s original all live funk line up consisting of Hanifah Walidah, Papa Dee and Everton Sylvester (vocals), Lati Kronlund (bass), Yancy Drew (drums & vocals), Desmond Foster (vocals & guitar), Iwan van Hetten (trumpet, keys & vocals) and Philippe Monrose (percussion). The group continued touring the world in 2007.
In the spring of 2008 the band released a new album ‘Watcha Playin’. The songs on the album have been written and developed during the band’s tours in front of audiences around the world, and it has been recorded in studios in New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Istanbul and Stockholm.
In the mid-1990s the group became a staple of the New York City club scene. Their debut album "Cool and Steady and Easy" (1994) scored an underground hit with the rendition of Pharoah Sanders's "The Creator Has a Master Plan". "Cool and Steady and Easy" (1994) also featured prominent guests like Maceo Parker, The Tower Of Power Horns, Michigan & Smiley and even Dizzy Gilespie.
The album, "In The Buzz Bag"(1998), included Turkish folk music rythms and instruments, recorded with the Turkish band, Laço Tayfa. In The BuzzBag became a milestone in collaborative projects and earned BFE a Grammy nomination. It also escalated the group to a stadium capacity act in Turkey.
In 2000, BFE released their third album "Make Them Like It", which concluded where the first album left off: a happy mélange of funk, Latin, reggae, jazz, house, dub, electro and hip hop which featured the fan favorites ‘I Got Cash’, ‘Mambo Con Dance Hall’ and ‘Woman Thing’.
After the 2001 world tour the band members took a hiatus and pursued a number of noted solo interests.
Offers of recording and touring where plentiful, and BFE songs kept being featured on compilation albums around the world, and in the summer of 2006, a core of BFE members got back together again to do a tour of three world continents as BFE Sound System (mixing classic BFE with electro and dub). By the end of 2006, the sound system model had been abandoned for a return to the group’s original all live funk line up consisting of Hanifah Walidah, Papa Dee and Everton Sylvester (vocals), Lati Kronlund (bass), Yancy Drew (drums & vocals), Desmond Foster (vocals & guitar), Iwan van Hetten (trumpet, keys & vocals) and Philippe Monrose (percussion). The group continued touring the world in 2007.
In the spring of 2008 the band released a new album ‘Watcha Playin’. The songs on the album have been written and developed during the band’s tours in front of audiences around the world, and it has been recorded in studios in New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Istanbul and Stockholm.
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Brooklyn Funk Essentials Lyrics
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Dance - Free Night Swing your partner dosy-doe Move to the rhythm of the dj…
Dance-Free Night Swing your partner dosy-doe Move to the rhythm of the dj…
Date With Baby Baby hurries out of her building Past Fabian, her ever-smili…
Dilly Dally I rise each day To yet another shock From dis alarm clock…
Freeway To Uskudar The way i feel right now It should last forever Tell me…
I Got Cash I got cash in fuck you quantities Know what? That makes you…
Istanbul Twilight it s from the mountain upon the mountain upon the mountain c…
Magick Karpet Ride we have the ticket for a magic carpet ride we're about…
Mambo Con Dancehall This is a clash to remember, a clash to remember This…
Rude Boy Shuffle Johnny's on a mission Marrow a go fly Backed up by dirty…
The Creator Has A Master There was a time, when peace was on the earth, And…
The Creator has a Master Plan There was a time, when peace was on the earth, And…
The Creator Has A Masterplan There was a time, when peace was on the earth, And…
The Day Before Adidi Before I was taken away, that one fateful day I was…
The Revolution Was Postponed Because of Rain Cool and steady and easy It makes them like it What? The Re…
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@dthawkins
This song makes me cry and smile all at the same time. This is a true jazz masterpiece.
@Davett53
In 1997, I "sampled" this music and used a small portion for a class assignment in my video making class, in Art school. I was 44 at the time. I'm 69 presently. I still love it,...such a dreamy composition.
@nateotiano
I've been looking for this song for 20 plus year and didn't even know the name of it. This is spiritual moment
@jlamarbeatmaker3741
2020 Quarantine. Thank god for this song!
@omomom84
This is a true MASTERPIECE! One of the greatest tunes ever...
@bobbatter1337
I agree. Phenomenal tune!
@lisaa6099
Agree
@bobbatter1337
What a song. First heard it on the Hennessy whiskey (UK) tv advert and contacted Hennessy themselves to ask who made the song. They told me and asked me to purchase a Hennessy in return... and I certainly did. Phenomenal tune!
@richardcollier8838
My then gf Val introduced me to this song while in tx. I instantly fell in love with it. She was/is a good woman. I will never stop caring for her. I'm genuinely happy shes happy. What wonderful memories dancing to this song. She touched my soul.
@NortonWestwizard01
This song is so effective because it has the echo effect that is present in the subway tunnels! Norton West