Redtenbacher's Funkestra - 'The Cooker'
'The Cooker' offers Stefan Redtenbacher's own take on the classic Jazz Funk genre, all masterfully propelled forward by the Funkestra core ensemble fortified with two muscular horn sections, one from the UK and one from the US.
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‘The Cooker’ offers Stefan Redtenbacher’s own take on the classic Jazz Funk genre, all masterfully propelled forward by the Funkestra core ensemble fortified with two muscular horn sections, one from the UK and one from the US.
Their burning grooves are mixed in with catchy themes and spiced up with fiery solos, creating a well funky stew.
Special guests include Lenny Pickett (Tower of Power, Saturday Night Live), Eric Krasno (Soulive) and Michael B. Nelson’s Hornheads (Prince).
Released 16 April 2013
Redtenbacher’s Funkestra:
- Stefan Redtenbacher (bass, bandleader)
- Mike Sturgis (drums)
- Eran Kendler (guitar)
- Sid Gauld (trumpet)
- Jim Hunt (tenor saxophone)
- Rob Taggart (Fender Rhodes)
- Dave Limina (Hammond B3 organ)
Special guests:
- Eric Krasno (guitar)
- Lenny Pickett (tenor saxophone)
The Hornheads:
- Michael B. Nelson (trombone)
- Steve Strand (trumpet)
- Dave Jensen (trumpet)
- Kenni Holmen (tenor, piccolo and flute)
- Kathy Jensen (alto and bari saxophone)
Additional musicians:
- Tom Rees-Roberts (trumpet)
- Trevor Mires (trombone)
- Paul Booth (tenor saxophone)
- Phil Todd (baritone saxophone)
- Alex Reffgen (tubax)
- Christoph Wundrak (flugelhorn)
- Oli Savill (percussion)
- Fergus Gerrand (percussion)
- Gabriel Nuzzoli (percussion)
String section:
- Pete Whitfield (section leader, violin and viola)
- Julian Cole (violin)
- Paulette Bayley (violin)
- Sarah Brandwood-Spencer (violin and viola)
- Nick Trygstad (cello)
- Simon Turner (cello)
Written and produced by Stefan Redtenbacher
(except ‘Crankmaster General’, written by Sid Gauld and Stefan Redtenbacher, ‘Unsquare Blues, written by Christoph Wundrak, ‘The Whip’ by Mike Sturgis, Eran Kendler and Stefan Redtenbacher’)
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