Breakestra News

Series: Subtitle: Riot Groovin' On! Program Type: Music Featured Speakers/Commentators: Dj Rhapsody Summary: There's a riot groovin on here in the studio! Some great funk tracks this week, startin' it off with Pigmeat Markham with "Who's Got The Number?". Eddie Bo hooks and slings, Joe Tex "Said A Bad Word", and Breakestra has the "Burgandy Blues".

In the early 1990s, two brothers and some friends in Munich formed the Poets of Rhythm, a band inspired by the "deep funk" sound of late-1960s James Brown, The Meters and similar groups.

Back in 1997, hip-hop DJ and producer Miles Tackett invited fellow DJs, musicians and MCs to jam at a weekly Los Feliz party, "The Breaks." "That's all the DJs were playing ... rare groove, funk breaks, sample source stuff," Tackett says.

Salaam & Beatnick "Never Can Say Goodbye" Remixing classic Motown soul songs is a tricky beast, since most of them are already so great in the first place.

If you're a music fan in LA, no doubt you know Breakestra, whose work in that gray area between breakbeat, old school funk, Latin grooves, jazz and soul comines to create something both fresh and timeless.

One of the key aspects of Normal Heights' turnaround is the street fair, an annual event presented by the Adams Avenue Business Association and billed as Southern California largest free music festival.

Part 1 1)The Lyman Woodard Organization "Creative Musicians" from the LP "Creative Musicians" Perfect Toy 2)Matata "Good Good Understanding" from the CD "Feeling Funky" 3)Betty Padgett "Sugar Daddy" from the CD "Betty Padgett" 4)Little Jackie "28 Butts" from the CD "The Stoop" 5)Clara Smith "Ain't Got Nobody To Grind My Coffee" from the CD "Dirty ...

The Bay Area's favorite organic hip-hop/funk/jazz/soul outfit, the Crown City Rockers , have just announced the date for their record release party for The Day After Forever, their new album on GoldDust/K7: October 2nd at the Independent.

Fusik 7 p.m. Saturday, September 19, at Catalyst's eighth-anniversary party, 301 Westward Drive, Miami Springs.

Funk, jazz, soul, Hip-Hop... Breakestra is all of these things and more. Over the past decade the Los Angeles based group's distinct funky/soulful sound has garnered them both an incredible buzz and a hardcore following and in September they'll be releasing Dusk Till Dawn , the long awaited follow up to their 2005 effort Hit The Floor .

Los Angeles Funk outfit The Breakestra is gearing up for their next official release, Dusk Till Dawn .

Andrew Bird @ Greek Theatre What: A violin, guitar, glockenspiel and whistling equals Andrew Bird at the Greek Theatre this Friday.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - The Glenwood Springs Summer of Jazz welcomes Los Angeles-based Breakestra for the second in the summer concert series, tonight beginning at 7 p.m. in Two Rivers Park.