Summer of Soul: Breakestra + KCRW DJ Jeremy Sole

The Los Angeles based ensemble is based in deep funk, good ol’ hip hop breaks & psychedelic soul – jazz fever. A Breakestra show is about dancing & getting your wig flipped back by a non stop throwdown of eight folks on stage getting loose & flexing some soulful skills over some serious funk grooves both original and deeper covers drawn from the vault of Miles music’s vast vault of funk. Think James Brown, The Meters, early Kool & The Gang, Funkadelic, and Sly & The Family Stone mixed in a gumbo pot of non stop funk. Watching the Breakestra live is a tour de force. As Miles says, “What are the first three letters of FUNK?”

The Breakestra began as the house band for the legendary club called the Breaks. Egon from Stones Throw Records further explains the etymology of their name: “Break. As in “breakbeat.” That ten second slice of percussive magic in the middle of a funk song that, when looped together by progressive South Bronx DJs in the 1970s, became the basis of the hip-hop movement. Arkestra. Out-there jazzer Sun Ra’s funkafied concept of the stuffy classical orchestra.” When we combine the two concepts, you have the Breakestra or in other words an orchestra that plays breaks. 

ALL HAMMER PROGRAMS ARE FREE
Location: Courtyard 
Ticketing: This drop-in event is not ticketed.
Parking: Under the museum, $3 flat rate after 6 p.m. (cash only)