Artists
Felix Lahuti is the only musician in Russia who plays the five-string electric violin, a vocalist, composer, and arranger.
Lakeside was originally started in Dayton, Ohio by Stephen Shockley under the name Young Underground in 1969.
Heavily influenced by Miles Davis, Saskia Laroo is a soft-toned, economical trumpeter who is comfortable playing electronic acid jazz, club music and hip-hop as well as straight-ahead acoustic jazz.
Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, jazz-soul singer Maysa Leak embarked on a singing career at an early age.
One of Italy's foremost DJs and label entrepreneurs, Leo Young began DJing at the age of 13, and was given his own local radio show not long after.
Utilizing hip-hop, jazz, New Orleans R&B, blues, and rock in their gumbo, Lettuce is a New York-based collective who update the sound of classic '70s funk.
At the beginning of their career, Level 42 was squarely a jazz-funk fusion band, contemporaries of fellow Brit funk groups like Atmosfear, Light of the World, Incognito, and Beggar & Co.
U.K. funk band Light of the World has the distinctions of having a tight head shot of a pre-stardom Sade on their self-titled debut LP cover and having guitarist Jean Paul "Bluey" Maunick as a band member.