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Essence of Jazz Bringing You Jazz Vybe's & Urban Soul Classics. It's been a minute but you know Essence is always looking to find you something different for you listening pleasure and I think I something for you. From their 2008 release Mellow Out & Acoustic this is the Chilled Jazz Vybe's of the Japanese Trio with their own brand of JazzFunk Groove.
Describe Cro-Magnon's musical style and you end up sounding as if you've swallowed an encyclopedia of music. The uber-cool Japanese trio's unique sound is influenced by everything from jazz to soul, house to funk, prog rock to space rock and dub.
Add the fact that the band members met while studying at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in the United States, and Cro-Magnon may start to sound like an overly cerebral affair. In reality, and particularly live, the band bypass the brain and aim squarely at the hips: it is impossible not to dance to them.
Kosuga and his bandmates, keyboard player Takumi Kaneko and drummer and percussionist Shigekazu Otake, met in the mid-1990s. They jammed in a tiny studio without electricity, eventually forming a six-piece band that played on the street, gigged at college and became the house band for a small club.