Bringing Back the Funk | 
| Artist: Brian Culbertson
Label: Grp Records
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 484
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001092702
UPC: 602517643437
EAN: 0602517643437
ASIN: B00160ANQY
Release Date: April 29, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Funkin' Like My Father | | • | Always Remember | | • | Hollywood Swinging | | • | The House Of Music | | • | You Got To Funkifize | | • | The Groove | | • | The World Keeps Going Around | | • | Excuse Me...What's Your Name? | | • | Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything) | | • | Let's Stay In Tonight |
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Album Description
Funk music has been a passion of Culbertson's since his youth. FEATURING: GERALD ALBRIGHT, BOOTSY COLLINS, PAUL JACKSON, JR., SHARON JONES, RONNIE LAWS, LEDISI, ERIC MARIENTHAL, MACEO PARKER, RAY PARKER, JR., RICKY PETERSON, TOM SCOTT, MUSIQ SOULCHILD, FRED WESLEY, MAURICE WHITE, BERNIE WORRELL
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Spicy funk. April 29, 2008
monte (in your mind)
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
Brian goes back to Funk inspiration for this album that mixes the Smooth with Funk.
"Always Remember" is a smooth-ish groove with Brian's clean piano work a delight.
Equally delightful is the highly melodic "Let's Stay In Tonight".
On the Funk side "Funkin' Like My Fathers" and "The Groove" have a P Funk flavour with co-producer Bootsy involved.
Kool & The Gang's "Hollywood Swinging" and Tower Of Power's "You Got To Funkifize" are given strong re-workings.
The killer track and strongest cover is Donny Hathaway's "Everything Is Everything", which retains much of the grittiness of the original.
An impressive cast includes Ronnie Laws, Gerald Albright, Ledisi and Musiq Soulchild on vocals, Maurice White, the leader and founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, among many others.
Enjoy!
 Very Tired and Uninspired Effort. June 12, 2008
Robert G. Raynor, Jr. (New Bern, NC United States)
9 out of 21 found this review helpful
I have alway thought of Brian Culbertson as being one of the finest smooth jazz artist of this time. However, this release is very tired and uninspired. It is so much so, that I could not finish listening to it. There is no smooth flow, just a bunch of unmemorable sound with a funk edge to it that would not have even been hits during the funk era of the '70s. Brian really butchered Kool and the Gang's song, "Hollywood Swinging," and made a great song terrible. Thank goodness Kool did not use Brian's arrangements when he initially made that song. With all this said, the smooth jazz genre seems to be lacking at present. And, I can tell that I won't be writing too many future reviews as this format seems to be in a permanent lull.
 Foonkay! April 29, 2008
Dellers (Oslo, Norway)
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
I received my copy earlier today, and what can I say? This is the perfect cd for me as a huge fan of funk. And I liked Brian alot even before this one....Just the list of wellknown funky musicians say anything you need to know. It's hard not to move when listening to this music, the songs themself and the production is perfect. 5+ stars!
Brian is "Oh So Versatile" - and really Funky!!! May 1, 2008
Edward Maxwell (Louisville, KY, USA)
7 out of 21 found this review helpful
When Brian said he was going to get a few friends together to make a funk CD I thought to myself, can he pull it off. This CD just shows the talent of the man and the way he can bring the right people together to make a super CD that has real funk but truly jazz roots. This CD is outstanding as always and the blend of funk jazz simply puts this CD in a category all by iteself. I had a chance to see him perform these songs at the Berks Jazz Festival in Reading. Pa. and I knew then it would be a hit. Great job Brian.
The Funk Has Definitely Been Revived! July 11, 2008
Eric Ornella (Cincinnati, Ohio United States)
4 out of 14 found this review helpful
I'll make this review short but sweet. If you are a fan of classic funk then Brian Culbertson (with the help of a few of his old school friends with serious funk credentials) has just created a generous slice of the good stuff. To carry my metaphor a little further, it's like unexpectedly coming across a bottle of a favorite old wine, sharing it with a special friend that you know will appreciate it, and discovering that it's every bit as good as you remembered it to be. Of course the difference here is that you can listen to Brian's new CD as many times as you want. If you appreciate "the real deal" funk as much as I do, my prediction is that as soon as the last note dies away you will be hitting play again to reappreciate Bringing Back the Funk's remarkable and fully realized goal of revitalizing a genre of music that has sadly, become all too rare in this era of corporate driven desperation to find anything that can be foisted off on a fragmented and increasingly disinterested (and clueless) public, hoping to sell as many "units" as possible. Ah well, sorry for the rant, but hearing a CD this good made me miss what we used to have in abundance before corporate greed once again reassumed control. So, even though this post ended up being neither short or sweet, the actual parts of it where I talked about the fantastic Bringing Back the Funk were. Time to stop reading the reviews and just buy it, because it's Great!
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