Jazz Dispensary Selects: Funk Inc. - Funk Inc.

Featuring 180-gram vinyl pressed at Quality Record Pressings (QRP) from lacquers cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original master tapes and housed in a one-pocket old-school style tip-on jacket, this is the definitive version of the Funk Inc’s debut album for the Prestige label, back in print on vinyl for the first time in over 20 years. Unvarnished, raw, and unabashedly funky, Funk Inc is a relentlessly infectious record dripping with charm that remains worthy of exploration by anyone with passing interest in the primal power of blues, soul, jazz, or funk. ALBUM OVERVIEW: An impressive, addictive brew of soul and funky jazz, Funk Inc comes out of the gate swinging with the eight-minute organ groove-a-thon, “Kool Is Back” and never lets up. Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, this unparalleled set in the soul-jazz canon recalls classic 1960s Blue Note sounds by the likes of Grant Green, Lou Donaldson, and Brother Jack McDuff, but with added grit, guts and groove that combines the deep-pocket, hypnotic moments of the Meters with unparalleled improvisational passages that recall the best of modern-day practitioners Galactic, Robert Walter, and the Greyboy Allstars. Unvarnished, raw, and unabashedly funky, Funk Inc is a relentlessly infectious record dripping with charm that remains worthy of exploration by anyone with passing interest in the primal power of blues, soul, jazz, or funk. TRACK LISTING: A1. Kool Is Back A2. Bowlegs B1. Sister Janie B2. The Thrill Is Gone B3. The Whipper AMAZON: www.amazon.com/Funk-Inc-LP/dp... SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/album/5o5wIu... ITUNES: itunes.apple.com/us/album/fun...