Brooklyn Funk Essentials

Acid jazz is a misleading tag for most of the acts to which the jocular term has been applied, but it's particularly limiting for Brooklyn Funk Essentials, a multicultural, ever-changing band that has fused funk, several shades of jazz, soul, ska, and dub poetry. They're known most for their debut album, Cool and Steady and Easy (1993), a major factor in the emergence of independent U.K. label Dorado. Since then, as the members have been engaged in an assortment of other creative outlets, they've reconvened on occasion to add to their discography, amounting to two albums each ...