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Van Romaine plays ‘Slipped Biscuit’ Master drummer Van Romaine plays ‘Slipped Biscuit’. Van, whose credits include Steve Morse Band, Billy Joel, Enrique Iglesias, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Deep Purple, Steve Vai, Jaco Pastorius, Bernie Worrell, Nena, to name but a few is laying it down large on ‘Slipped Biscuit’. This tune was originally released on…
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(from L to R): Tony Remy, Mike Outram, Karl Vanden Bossche, Joe Glossop, Stefan Redtenbacher, Leo Mansell, Mike Sturgis, James Welch in the courtyard of Masterlink Productions Studio Dear funkateers, this is my latest Masterlink Sessions Patreon blog – I thought it was worth sharing on my own website too:-) 60 | 20 | 10…
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Funkestra featuring trombonist Nichol Thomson Live at Masterlink Watch this live stream hosted at Masterlink Productions on the True-Live streaming platform HERE. 20:30 UK Time 21:30 CEST (Europe) 3:30pm EDT (New York) 12:30pm (California) This is hopefully the first of many Redtenbacher’s Funkestra live streams featuring awesome guests. First up, trombonist and keyboard player Nichol…
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BIG FUNK BAND out now on RSB Records Best known for their original ‘wall-to-wall’ instrumental Jazz Funk, the London-based Redtenbacher’s Funkestra are excited to share Big FUNK Band which follows 2020’s well received The Hang. The latter has accumulated over 500,000 streams on Spotify since its release last fall and spent multiple weeks on the…
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New Orleans Drummer Stanton Moore is the drummer on ‘Feed The Chicken’ – one of the original Jazz Funk tracks forming part of Redtenbacher’s Funkestra fortcoming album ‘BIG FUNK BAND’, dropping April 30. You can pre-order a white vinyl or deluxe CD package HERE on Bandcamp. Recently Stanton started a weekly Wednesday night live stream…
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With much excitement I’m finally in the position to announce that ‘Big FUNK Band’ is coming your way, following on from the super-well received ‘The Hang’ which has accumulated over 450k+ Spotify streams since the 2020 release and spending numerous weeks being number #1 in the Funk category of the Roots Music Report (RMR).
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When Redtenbacher’s Funkestra gigs were still possible ‘Cool Beans’ was always an audience favorite. This stomping wall-to-wall funk piece with a larger-than-life bass line certainly justifies to be on the ‘Big FUNK Band’ album. The rhythm section is extended by a big band horn section and a live string section. The featured soloists are guitar wizard Mike Outram and Paul Jordanous on trumpet (who also co-wrote the horn arrangement with Stefan).
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Out now, ‘Fire In The Blood’ is a new single by Jade Like The Stone with Redtenbacher’s Funkestra. The song, taken from their upcoming ‘7 Roads’ album collaboration, has already been included in the ‘Neo Psychedelic’ official Spotify playlist. Is it Psych Rock? Very possibly, but, as ever, Jade’s music is hard to constrain by classification, borrowing as it does from blues, rock – even prog, folk and funk perhaps – with a characteristic lack of prejudice.
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Oh yeah! ‘The Hang’ – our 12th full blown album – this collection of 11 songs has finally dropped on RSB Records, i.e. available for you to listen digitally in one go! There is a super-limited amount of eco friendly CD packages incl. 16 page booklet left – feel free to get in touch and order from me.
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Jade Danielle Williams – aka Jade Like the Stone – announces a Kickstarter campaign to help launch her album collaboration with feted ‘studio house band’ Redtenbacher’s Funkestra.
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Soulful and strikingly authentic Australian songstress, Georgia van Etten, joins an all-star lineup of top UK session players to perform her heart wrenching song ‘Oh Mother’ for a 100% Live Masterlink Session with Redtenbacher’s Funkestra, the studio house band.
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I’m delighted to announce the release of ‘A Little Book Of Jazz’ on Pedigree Cuts. A special thanks to executive producer Elliot Ireland to believe in this collection of songs. The album title refers to ‘The Real Book 5th Edition’ – which was an illegal fake book – a compilation of lead sheets of jazz standards, created by Berklee College of Music students in the 1970s. It has become the standard reference work for generations of jazz players and has influenced the performance and composition repertoire in the Jazz circles ever since. Including me – a former Berklee College of Music student – firmly falling into the spell of this real book – sold under the counter in Boston, MA.
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