About Brooklyn Funk Essentials
Brooklyn Funk Essentials is a music collective who mix jazz, funk, and hip hop, featuring musicians and poets from different cultures. The band was conceived in 1993 by producer [[artist:Arthur Baker]] and bassist and musical director [[artist:Lati Kronlund]]. 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 [[artist:Pharoah Sanders]]' "The Creator Has a Master Plan". The following album, In the Buzzbag (1998), included Turkish folk music rhythms and instruments, recorded in consortium with the Turkish clarinettist [[artist:Hüsnü Şenlendirici]]. Further albums followed in 2000 and 2008 which more resembled their first offering.
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