From the GroundUP Music stable, founded by Michael League and home to Snarky Puppy, comes one of those enormous bands that never stop surprising.
We can’t improve on GroundUP’s own description of them, so here’s their official blurb.
The Funky Knuckles are a world-class jazz orchestra made up of genetically enhanced cyber-supermen. Their mind-blowing grooves and harmonic complexity will shatter your fragile psyche and leave you drowning in a pool of fresh llama milk. The band members are as brilliant as they are handsome and have been credited alongside Janet Jackson, Stanley Clarke, Larry Carlton and many others. Their recent albums have topped the iTunes jazz charts, and their fifth album drops in May 2023 on GroundUP Music. The oracle has predicted this album will revolutionise the sport of music for generations to come. This unstoppable crime-fighting squad will have you dancing like a kraken on methamphetamine before bursting into tears of joy that can be mixed with cobra-skull dust from the ground to synthesise the elixir that lets you pass through solid objects.
Ben Bohorquez, sax
Ethan Ditthardt, guitar
Kwinton Gray, keys
Cedric Moore, drums
Wes Stephenson, bass
Evan Weiss, trumpet