Uncle John's Band ALGOLIA_ENRICHED_MAY_2025 very Soul II Soul street-meets-sophistication

very Soul II Soul street-meets-sophistication arrangement – if they start making blaxploitation films in again

Although the title "Systeme" suggests a perhaps rather distant-cool album

The awesomely daft and supremely catchy 'Bohemian Rhapsody' aside

Bulat and her old friend Mark Lawson

all accompanied by socially engaged visuals

Uncle John's Band ALGOLIA_ENRICHED_MAY_2025 very Soul II Soul street-meets-sophisticationNamed for the Grateful Dead song that concludes this inspired double album, Uncle John's Band features masterful guitarist John Scofield at his most freewheeling. Wide ranging repertoire finds his trio with Vicente Archer and Bill Stewart tackling material from Dylan's "Mr Tambourine Man" to Neil Young's "Old Man", from Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere" to the Miles Davis Birth of the Cool classic "Budo". And jazz standards including "Stairway to the