Artists
Cool Breeze is Charlie Lexton. He spent his formative years listening to punk, funk, reggae and hip hop.
The acid jazz outfit Corduroy assembled singer / keyboardist Scott Addison, his drummer brother Ben, guitarist Simon Nelson-Smith, and bassist Richard Searle.
Founded in the early 90's Count Basic has become one of the representatives of the so called acid jazz scene.
Courtney Pine is perhaps the most enigmatic of late 20th century British jazzmen with a vision that has brought world music, pop, reggae, electronica, funk, and soul to sit in with the jazz tradition.
Ken Yokoyama has been involved with a series of projects (including heading Pizza of Death Records), but one of the few to hold strongly was the Crazy Ken Band.
Cunnie Williams was born in 1963 in Los Angeles. When he was young, he played basketball, but he turned to music, when he lived in Hannover, Germany.
They appeared out of nowhere, as if they were transported from a parallel universe wherein blue-eyed soul was seen as rock & roll's salvation in the late ‘80s.
Perhaps because he didn't cross over to the pop audience as heavily as Motown's stars, it may be that the scope of Curtis Mayfield's talents and contributions have yet to be fully recognized.