Brooklyn Funk Essentials

Brooklyn Funk Essentials is a music collective who mix jazz, funk, and hip hop, featuring musicians and poets from different cultures. The band was conceived in 1993 by producer [a=Arthur Baker] and bassist and musical director [a=Lati Kronlund]. In the mid-1990s, the group became a staple of the New York City club scene.

Their debut album Cool and Steady and Easy (1994) scored an underground hit with the rendition of [a=Pharoah Sanders]' "The Creator Has a Master Plan". The following album, In the Buzzbag (1998), included Turkish folk music rhythms and instruments, recorded in consortium with the Turkish clarinettist [a=Hüsnü Şenlendirici]. Further albums followed in 2000 and 2008 which more resembled their first offering.