New Orleans Funk Vol 2
Soul Jazz
SOUL/FUNK
This is SOUL JAZZ RECORDS new journey into the heart of New Orleans and a guide to the city’s finest Funk music produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Featuring everyone from THE METERS to EDDIE BO, LEE DORSEY to BETTY HARRIS, this is a who’s who of the Crescent City’s most famous and most funky!
New Orleans first gave birth to Jazz music, a Black musical form centred on rhythm, improvisation, freedom and collectivity at the turn of the century. Similarly in the late 1960s New Orleans Funk came to define a unique sound, mixing Caribbean rhythms and New Orleans second-line syncopation and rhythm and blues. Whilst Jazz and Funk music spread throughout the world, many African-American musical traditions remained within the city limits such as Mardi Gras and Carnival, Saturday Night Fish Fries, Funeral Marching bands and more - partly explaining why New Orleans music is so unique.
Whilst New York had ATLANTIC, Detroit had MOTOWN, Memphis had STAX, Chicago had CHESS, Los Angeles had MODERN, New Orleans had a multitude of small businesses fighting for space. So whilst every family in America knows the music of GLADYS KNIGHT or SMOKEY ROBINSON - few could tell you about anyone from New Orleans save artists such as FATS DOMINO in the 1950s and in the late 1960s THE METERS and LEE DORSEY.
‘New Orleans Funk 2’ brings together many of these artists along with text, sleeve-notes and photographs that gives social and historical context to the incredibly funky music of New Orleans and - together with Soul Jazz Records’ earlier New Orleans’ releases - presents the definitive story of New Orleans Funk.
Vinyl comes on super-loud DJ pressing.
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