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The Du​-​Rites: A Funky Bad Time

by J-Zone

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Uptown 03:06
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Arnold 02:35
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Jungle 03:18
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Mad Dog 03:34
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Jamaica 03:15

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Check our new music video, "Can't Buy Groove"! -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DUzmIVGsYw

Album #5 in just as many years! But this one is quite unlike the others. Made in the midst of a pandemic with an onslaught of in-your-face racism, police brutality, death, homelessness, poverty, inequality, injustice and life as we know it changing forever all hitting with brute force at the same time, A Funky Bad Time was made under stress in a way the prior four albums weren't. But just because times are bad, doesn't mean they can't be funky. In fact, the badder, the funkier. So funky you gotta spell BADD with two Ds! 12 slices of cold blooded instrumental funk (+ 1 Bandcamp-only digital bonus track) from Jay Mumford (aka J-Zone) and Pablo Martin - with guest musicians Horn Diapersen (fka Ike "Time Wolf" Parker who played alongside Jay in Ben Pirani's band) on bass and percussionist Bruce Martin (who joins the Du-Rites live and plays alongside Pablo in Tom Tom Club).

credits

released November 13, 2020

Jay Mumford (J-Zone): Drums, AceTone Organ, Percussion, Vocals, Hammond Organ, Clavinet, Elec. Piano

Pablo Martin: Bass, Guitar, Synthesizers (Moog Taurus, Wah Organ)

with:

Horn Diapersen: Bass on "Arnold" and "Alfred's Nightmare"
Bruce Martin: Percussion on "Uptown" and "Can't Buy Groove"
Broughamin' Fred: Vocals on "Hot N' Psycho"

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J-Zone Queens, New York

My childhood dream of playing bass in a funk band died when Jheri curls went out of style. I had an on again-off again rap career that ended in 2016. I wrote and self-published a book in 2011, learned to play drums shortly after and returned to my funk roots as a drummer, where I feel most at home. Enjoy the music and thanks for your support! ... more

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