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When I told friends, punters and other musos that the Funkestra will be playing in Farncombe most of them raised an eyebrow…“in Farncombe? where are you going to play Jazz Funk in Farncombe?” Well, to my delight I could tell them that we will play at the Farncombe Cavern, the music room above the Freeholders Public…
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Super jazzy funky double bill with special guests Dusty Pocket this Friday.
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The time has come to take our Funkestra mini big band out again, opening the Jazz Festival at the 606!
Read storyNow this is cool: http://t.co/PJF5f0HN
Read storyMixing for ‘The Cooker’ with Rupert ‘Master-ears’ Christie…delightful!
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My friend Bobby from Bobby’s backing tracks asked me to play bass on ‘Ruby Baby’ by Donald Fagen.
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Obviously I normally play bass, but at this year’s Cornbury festival, I let someone else have a go!
Read storyJust calibrated my studio speakers-was it w/Donald Fagen Nightfly, James Taylor live or Paul Anka Rock Swings or Prince Gold Experience?
Read storyCheck out what Lenny Pickett, legendary tenor sax player of Tower of Power has to say about recording sessions: http://t.co/oMnmtH3p
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Come down next Friday evening, 7th of October to see and hear us play at the 606 Jazz Club in Chelsea/London.
Read storyTrying to pick only 8 songs from our repertoire for our one hour show at the Boileroom double bill this coming Monday is really hard!
Read storyI’m very proud to announce that the band logo is one of the standard backgrounds for a funky metronome app
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