Urban/R&B » Type: Improvisational
C PHINEAS: C Phineas
C Phineas is new soul music. Never before have elements of the Roots, John Coltrane and James Brown come together to create this sound. The band is dedicated to performing and recording original live music.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SLY-CHI: The Space
"The Space" is a journey through Sly-Chi's experiences over the four years since their last release. The songs range from the New Orleans style "Reap what you Sow" to the Stevie Wonder-esque Clavinet based "Cobblestones."
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
LIVE AT THE TEMPLE BAR: Five Years
Five years of music at the Temple Bar, providing a relaxed groove as edgy hip-hop rhythms and rich funky bass lines pierce the incense-laden air, and the omnipresent Buddha smiles knowingly down upon the crowd.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THE REAL LIVE SHOW: Season 7 Nublu Thursday Nights
The Real Live Show is a groundbreaking collective comprised of a stellar seven member Jazz/Funk ensemble fronted by two of the most innovative emcees to form the most exciting Hip Hop band in New York City.
CD price: $12.97
CRÖNK: Wegotchu
It's like nothing you've ever heard, EV-ER. 2 quarts of funk, a pint of hip-hop, several heaping cups of concentrated brass, seasoned with jazz and topped off with a boatload of scorching in-your-face rocking guitar solos and riffs.
CD price: $9.99
WAYNE WALLACE: The Nature Of The Beat
A hot blend of high energy latin jazz and soulful rhythm & blues. Exciting improvisational dance music that's takes the listener on a trip into the world of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene.
CD price: $12.97
THE SERMON: Five From the Borough
A funky jazzy soul experience, an instrumental band in a world of perfect vocals.
Recommended if you like Soulive.
THE NEW GROOVE ORCHESTRA: Illharmonic
We're ten young musicians trying to bring you the old school sound of funk and r&b with modern jazz, soul, pop and big band vibes. We've got a screamin' 5-piece horn section and an energetic and soulful female vocalist.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MISSION PLAYERS: Get Back Soul
Funky Soulful Jam Music for people that like to Get Fonky.
Recommended if you like Galactic, The Greyboy Allstars.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LOGAN RICHARDSON: Cerebral Flow
Modern improvised music w/ fresh compositions infused with traditional, modern, & urban influences.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
POFTER & THE ALLSTAR SYNDICATE: Resurrecting The Magus
Rock, funk, soul, blues, instrumental, drum & bass, psychedelic. A wide range of styles combined with a powerful voice. 79 minutes of unique and natural musical entertainment.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
POFTER & THE ALLSTAR SYNDICATE: Directions To Pangaea
Rock, funk, soul, blues, instrumental, drum & bass, psychedelic. a wide range of styles combined with a powerful voice. 79 minutes of unique and natural musical entertainment.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
BURNT SUGAR THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER: Not April in Paris - The Arkestra Chamber Live at Banlieues Bleues
Employing "Conduction," an interpretative system for improvisors developed by Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Greg Tate conducts the pan-stylistic, polytonal, polyrhythmic Arkestra Chamber through improvisational performances in tune with the collective personal
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS: Be Yourself
Fat and funky grooves interspersed with mellow soulful jazz.
CD price: $12.97
FUNK THIS!: Size Does Matter
Funk This. is a band about Brotherhood and Frienship. It is Funk,Jazz, Soul played with great immprovisation. They've played with(partial list):Barry White, Robben Ford, Dr.Dre, Frank Gambale
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
TRICK BAG: Hip Shot
Groovin' funk music in the style reminiscent of the best of New Orleans.
CD price: $10.00
DR SAX: The Gospels According To Dr Sax
Funk, soul & jazz, even some gospel.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MEADOWLARK JIVIN': Have You Ever Seen Meadowlark Jivin'
Funk and soulful grooves with horns and mean guitar licks compplete with jazz inspired poetics from the street and beyond.
CD price: $12.97
LUCY SMITH: Movin' On
Jazz, Blues, Funk, beautiful ballads and a few more surprises -- Lucy Smith's vocals are full of joyous soul. You'll have some serious fun with Lucy's mix of old and new tunes.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
PARADIGM: Paradigm
Jazz, Funk, Soul, Rock: these are all just ingredients in Paradigm's recipe for cooking up the ill beats.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
CECILIA STALÍN: Straight Up
Stockholm vs New York - Jazzmusic that mixes straight ahead with nordic melancholy with both attitude and presence. It's original compositions with complex arrangements and multidimensional lyrics. Vocalist Cecilia Stalín(from the group 'Koop') is backed
CD price: $12.00
ORGANISSIMO: This Is The Place
organissimo is a trio based around the Hammond organ that plays jazz with soul.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
ANTHONY MILLS: Ghettotrance "CRY"
ATTENTION.... THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN BUY THESE SONGS RIGHT NOW IS THRU ITUNES, RHAPSODY, OR MP3 TUNES.
MP3 price: $13.99
SOUTH SOUL RHYTHM SECTION: Mtown
Smooth jazz debut from premier young Memphis players.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MOST CHILL SLACKMOB: Break North - LIVE!!
A collection of LIVE recordings from Most Chill SLACKMOB adventures throughout the great Northwest. Ever wonder what a live Slackmob show is all about? Break North is the CD for you. Full length and filled with classic hits such as "The Drinkie Song"...
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
MOST CHILL SLACKMOB: The Green One
Another EP heater with "Drill", Start the Show" and "Electro". Have you heard these tunes? They are all slammin'. Again, limited supplies on The Green CD, and it's under $6.
MOST CHILL SLACKMOB: Illigan's Island
The HOT iLLigans Island EP is now available online. This is the EP that developed into our full length release "Urban Mind Expansion". Limited quantity so get 'em while you can.
CD price: $5.99
THE MONDAY MILKMEN: Does This Milk Smell Funny To You?
Funky Jazz with a sense of humour.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SIDESPIN: Square With The Universe
Acid jazz and funk with a stylistic range of Soulive, Herbie Hancock, and Aquarium Rescue Unit
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
SOUND INC: Sound Inc
A bunch of bored 15 year olds trying to craft a blend of sleazy funk, mind-expanding acid jazz, and even some more classic sounding jazz.
CD price: $8.00
NOVELLO: B3 Soul
Novello’s B3 soul is flavored with Jazz and Hip Hop giving a cool, contemporary edge to a genre previously pioneered by 60’s soulsters and rock titans. Novello takes you to a new Universe where beats and playing extraordinaire simmer, smolder and smoke.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $11.95
THE AMSTERDAM HEADLINERS: Thank You
70's Funk translated to authentic music of today.
Recommended if you like Sly & Family Stone.CD price: $14.00
SOMA: First Takes at Last Call
A Funky fusion of World Beat,Jazz,and Soul, into an organic mix that breaks away from conventional rhythms and melodies without sacrificing the groove.
CD price: $10.00
DONNI AND CLOUT: Spoonfed
Improvised, cut up, built up and then released back into society.
CD price: $12.97
FORMAN: Balance
Progressive rock meets soul and everything in between - funk, fusion, hard rock, pop, and anything else on your musical grocery list.
CD price: $10.00
JONNYMACK: Stigmatized
The perfect recipe to tantalize your senses, a dash of funk, a sprinkle of old school R & B, and a pinch of hip hop. The perfect party mix.
CD price: $13.00
TORTILLA FACTORY: Tortilla Factory 1974
Texas/Chicano music; an original art form created and developed in Texas
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SEMAJE AND DA ORDER: Luv's On Da Menu Tonight
Creative and original contemporary music
Recommended if you like Jeffrey Osborne.CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
IRIS LORD: A Rose in a Garbage Can
improvised funk rhapsodic inside and outside you an even dance to it recorded live, drew to following comments - "Marlene Dietrich on acid" - Dave Parry - Killersnap Records 1995.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
IRVIN FOSTER: Crossroads
Funky Jazz Freestyle, firmly rooted in Soul and Gospel music, derivative of the 70's and 80's, soundtrack quality, a style of its own.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ALL MARBLES: ALL MARBLES
Dynamic roots rock, danceable jam with touches of funk.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
AVRAHAM LUMBROSO: Avraham Spirit
Modern Israeli jewish music with very strong soul jazz and funky influences. Lyrics based on Bible, Psalms and Rabbi Nachman of Breslev textes.
CD price: $15.00
DRONGOMALA: Elemental
Elemental veers from straight ahead grimy minamilist hiphop to more jazzy jams. All mixes and jams are from improvs done with the verbalist.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $3.00
THE HALF OF IT: Drop
THE HALF OF IT is a leader in "new jazz fusion", a sound that incorporates elements of modern popular music (funk, hip hop, neo-soul, heavy metal, art rock), along with classical and world music, into the harmonic and improvisatory framework of jazz
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
WALTER DAWKINS: Forevermore
An unknown Virtuoso and exceptional soloist. Has been Producer/Musician for over forty years. Multitalented and definitely in the digital domain. SPE Inc.
Recommended if you like John Coltrane, Grover Washington, Jr..CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
STOP IRRATIONAL LOGIC: Friends and Other Strangers
Stop Irrational Logic can best be described as a combination of the groovy jams of Phish with the innovative horn playing of Miles davis and the soulful vocals of Aretha Franklin.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
LAZY BIRD: Feelin' It
Lazy Bird's music is a powerful combination of funky grooves and world beats mixed with a healthy respect for jazz tradition. Well written songs and inspired improvisation complement the experience.
CD price: $12.00
FAMILY STYLE: Why You Wanna
Original blend of jazz/rock/soul that will soothe,groove,and move anybody.
CD price: $15.00
THE MONDAY MILKMEN: Plan C
Funky/Jazz "jam band" with some spoken word and a little humour thrown in.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JAMES WARFIELD JR.: Straight Horn
HipHop Mix With A Little BeBop and smooth jazz
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
DOUG ELLINGTON & NEW URBAN GROOVE: Life
A marriage of many diffrent Cultures fused into a Langauge of soulful expression, You don't have to live in the City to relate. Jazz fusion meets urban grooves, with sassy blues and rock weavings too.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
RUSTY CLOUD: Walkin' The Night
A mix of blues, soul and Americana featuring guest performances from Southside Johnny, "Blue Lou" Marini, Bob Mintzer, Bobby Bandiera and many more
CD price: $12.97
THE BO-KEYS: The Royal Sessions
Band featured throughout the score to "Hustle & Flow." Incendiary soul/jazz/funk - a hard-hitting and authentic modern take on Memphis' original soul-stew sound. All-star Stax veterans are joined by Memphis' finest young up-and-comers.
CD price: $13.49
MOVEABLE FEAST: Directions
"...eclectic, solid and funky...shows a sense of fearlessness as it tweaks the jazz tradition." V. Casey -Minneapolis Star Tribune
CD price: $14.99
FUNKLOGIC: Funklogic
A culmination of Groove, Jazz, Soul, Reggae & House Beats producing their signature Funk Thang.
MP3 price: $12.00
THE MIKE ARNOLD JAZZ COMPANY: Seven
Modal jazz that leaves behind constraints and preconceptions, letting the wind take hold and send the improvisations into a distant, drifting dream.
THALAMUS FLYNT: Meniscus
This original sound not only keeps your body movin but stimulates your mind, riding the sound waves that travel through, around, and on top of the prisms of jazz, funk, Latin, reggae, and rock. Off times and syncopation, sprinkled with slide.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
NEOMYTHIC: Neomythic
Neo Soul, Acid Jazz (if you must call it that) Soulful Psychedelia with an Electronic Jazz undertone
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
COLLABORATION: Because of You
Dynamic,intense and smooth.Original compositions with a touch of jazz giants. Contemporary Jazz
CD price: $15.00
PAUL COOKE: Make Tea not War (Vol 2)
Paul Cooke founder member of the band Sade and drummer on iconic 80's HITS such as 'Smooth Operator' presents his second album in the 'make Tea Not War series. Featuring US singer Ty Parr and former Three Degrees Bass player and producer Les Hurdle.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $1.00
WINSTON GILCHRIST: Maxine Electra's Cosmic Boogie
A seventeen minute long funked up, exotic, "hiplectriptechnogogohop", dance/jam master piece about a man and a woman on a dance floor south of Market street.
MP3 price: $5.00
AFTER TOUCH BAND: After Touch Then And Now
From then, the 90 to now, the millennium and moving ahead within the digital domain.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MEGA SOUL REVUE: Burn it in the Blues
A multi-musical experience across several genres of rock, soul and spoken word.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
WILL RAST: Impressionable Youth
The new album from jazz piano virtuoso WIll Rast. Rast, 25, plays with intensity and direction. His song writing, however, sets him apart. Rast's stunning compositions bridge the gap between childhood wonderment and the reality of life in the 21st century
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
THE MOTION PROJECT: A Diverse City (Belfast)
From within Belfast we gathered 46 musicians representing 11 countries, and with the harmony of different cultures & religions - we made music.
Recommended if you like 1 Giant Leap.CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
KERSTEN STEVENS: The Beginning
This album combines jazz with a contemporary, sassy, funky and altogether original interpretation in jazz violin form.
GREENROOM: Connect
Jazz horns, deep funk bass lines, soulfull vocals and infectious grooves.
MP3 price: $12.97
WATER BABIES: Draw Me a Bath
Funky improv grooves...Water Babies play spontaneously created funk improvisations lovingly designed to have you shakin' your booty. Think Bitches Brew or Headhunters combined with Soulive or The Meters and you'll get an idea...
MP3 price: $12.50
EARTH'S SEDUCTIVE HAZE: Resurrection Revisited
A cross-genre album, with influences ranging from Native American, to Blues, to Folk, to Jazz. Track #8 was selected to be used as part of the soundtrack to a film called "The Hatch" which showed at the 2006 Banff Film Festival.
CD price: $6.97
THEMOOREFOUNDATION: Lifestyle
A smooth coast to coast conglomerate of Hip-Hop and R&B, depicting the LifeStyle achieved by The Moore Foundation family. From the opening introduction to the final outro, the LifeStyle album is sure to challenge your favorite album in your collection.
Recommended if you like Erykah Badu, Nate Dogg.MP3 price: $11.89
MARMALADE: Volume One
Soul-Funk improvised live every Thursday night in Seattle, captured and edited for your listening pleasure.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
DENNIS WARREN'S FULL METAL REVOLUTIONARY JAZZ ENSEMBLE: FMRJE Legacy
FMRJE Legacy CD covering rap funk politics with acid jazz
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MARLON SAUNDERS: A Groove So Deep: The Live Sessions
Marlon Saunders and his band, Mood Control, make improvisational soul music with elements of jazz, gospel and funk. His music "invites us into a sun-drenched place of romantic and spiritual love, of inspired funk, passion and rich imagery..." (Baltimore S
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
THE DIRTY SOCKS: Dirty Socks
Talking Heads meets Johnny Love in San Francisco. Featuring Jim Gibbs. Funky Cool.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $4.99
ANDY GUTHRIE: least common denominator
Andy Guthrie's debut recording is an intriguing and soulful combination of funk and jazz. Sometimes haunting, always catchy, Least Common Denominator's original compositions give you the impression you've finally heard something different.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
AVALON: Mystique
The music is a blend of Steely Dan meets Joe Cocker, with incredible improvisation
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
STARRUNNER: Overstand
Original rock and roll with elements of funk, blues, jazz and hip-hop, served Chicago-style.
MP3 price: $12.97
DE'VINE SOUL: DS One
A self-produced, independent release that serves up a tasty, spiritual and soulful menu of original compositions and arrangements that are jazz in nature with flavors of Latin, R&B, Blues, Gospel, and Funk.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
KATIE ELEVITCH: Now Is The Destination
A sonic devotional journey across lush, sexy live-wire landscapes of groove rock, deep soul and pop-folk that carries you into meditations on longing, loss, liberation, the spirituality of sex and the transcendence of love.
Recommended if you like Jeff Buckley, Stevie Nicks.CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
GREG MURPHY: Let's Get Started
An eclectic acoustic & electric mix of high-energy improvisational jazz, featuring Dale Robbins and John Brown.
Recommended if you like McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea.CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
CHARLES OGINGA SHELTON: Seeing Is Believing
This creative piece entitled "Seeing Is Believing" is a true blend of Instrumental Music Jazz Fusion, Smooth Jazz, R&B Jazz Vocals with a AfroBrazilian,AfroAmerican,Percussion Feeling.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
BRUCE MCKENZIE: Aesthetic Melodology
Smooth jazz instrumental guitar with a schism of acoustic guitar and RnB melodies. Very smooth and relaxing guitar from this artist.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SUBTHUNK: Project B
subthunk's unique eclectic style has been described as "funky ass space groove" and "the future sound of jazz."
Recommended if you like Orbital, Fila Brazillia.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
FINGERPRINTS: DNA
A smooth blend of jazz and R&B that will sooth and comfort.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
ORGONE: Orgone
Supabad, supaheavy, transcendental funk- no frills, all grit and oozing passion & soul...
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
SIDEWAYS: Sideways
Funky odd-time signatures, passionate soulful vocals and eclectic-powerful horn playing.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
JAJA PRODUCTIONS...PRESENTS: Outside
JaJa Productions music focuses on insightful lyrics, being musically innovative and bridging the gap between hip hops generations,with conscious music that conveys themes of love, unity,and change through artistic Expression
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
LITTLE SISTA: Raven
A blend of Rock and Soul with 5 part harmonies.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JOHNNY VIDACOVICH, JUNE YAMAGISHI, AND GEORGE PORTER JR: We Came To Play
trio funk rock jam
Recommended if you like Jimi Hendrix, Cream.MP3 price: $12.97
FILLET OF SOUL: Long Way Home
A smooth blend of R&B with tantilizing touches of Jazz spice.
CD price: $15.95
HOT BUTTERED RHYTHM: BlackSoundSploitation
A double trio (2 keyboardist, 2 bassist, 2 drummers) embracing improvisational funk and jazz.
CD price: $10.00
GERRY KUNKEL/JIM HAYWARD: Coronado Sand
Funky-Edged Smooth Jazz. Lots of great sax, funky guitar and great Brasilian, ballad & urban grooves
CD price: $13.00
SPENCER MURRAY GROUP: Spencer Murray Group
spontaneous compositions, invented in the moment, following the mood of the players, the vibe of the room, and a love for subtle grooves.
CD price: $12.75
DJ MARKEY G: Keep It Steppin
smooth chicago steppers music fill good music
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BENDORÉ: Retrospective Imagery
Progressive retro funk with a Philly twist.
CD price: $9.95 / MP3 price: $9.95
RAPHAEL DEGIORGIO & FRIENDS: The Pure Joy Project
a musical journey that will take you through some new and different styles of hip hop jazz, smooth jazz, pop/R&B, and a few funk fusion & soundscape moods.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
SIMPLY MIKE V: V Sign
simply mike v (the volume ) coming soon, this cd was released in 2001, when i first started , puting stuff on cds, working with a keyboard, and a four track tape recorder, im currently a street musician in atlanta
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
