Product Review

2019 three CD set. The UK's leading jazz groove band Down to the Bone present a seriously funky all-instrumental collection of their first three albums, which have been unavailable in physical format for some years. From Manhattan To Staten went to #2 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart on it's original release in the '90s, while another key cut, the Grammy-nominated "Brooklyn Heights", hit #2 on Billboard's Jazz airplay chart. Both these tunes also feature as 2019 bonus tracks, recorded live in the studio by the band's current line-up. Second CD - The Urban Grooves - opens with two more DTTB classics, "Long Way From Brooklyn" and "The Zodiac". Again, the album has a newly recorded bonus track, a cover of Willie "Beaver" Hale's "Concrete Jungle", long a favourite in their live set. Third CD Spread The Word also features a brand new bonus track - available for the first time - a cover of Beyonce's 2006 hit "Déjà Vu".