Funkin' for Jamaica - Tom Browne 👉 Funkin' for Jamaica -Tei Towa 👉No Friend of Mine - Club Nouveau

Описание: Funkin' for Jamaica - Tom Browne  
Funkin' for Jamaica -Tei Towa  
No Friend of Mine - Club Nouveau

"Funkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.)" is a song by jazz trumpeter Tom Browne. The single—a memoir of the Jamaica neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens where Browne was born and raised—is from his second solo album, Love Approach. Browne got the idea for the song while he was at his parents' home. The vocals for the single were performed by Toni Smith (Thomassina Carrollyne Smith), who also helped compose the song. The song hit number one on the US Billboard R&B chart for a month. "Funkin' for Jamaica" peaked at number nine on the dance chart and made the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart, but it never charted on the Billboard Hot 100. 
MUSICIAN: Thom Browne's debut was in 1979. Born in New York, he studied at the Music and Art High School, which was the model for the film FAME, and was apparently interested in classical music. But when he started attending university, he became interested in jazz and started performing professionally while still in school. After being spotted by Weldon Irvin, Tom began playing with Sonny Fortune, Lonnie Smith (organ) and the Fatback Band (later Fatback) in the mid-1970s. When he started appearing in clubs with his own band, George Benson took notice of Tom and took Earl Crew, who he had worked with for a time, to those clubs. Crew then tells his producers Dave Grusin & Larry Rosen about Tom, and the two of them go to look in on the club. That's how the rumour about Tom quickly spread among New York jazz lovers.

In 1979, his first album, BROWNE SUGAR, produced by Grusin & Rosen, was released. This was followed by their second album, Love Approach (see above). The first hit from this was ‘Funkin’ For Jamaica'. The cover shows Tom sitting in the cockpit of a small aeroplane with a trumpet in his hand, but this is no joke: Tom actually obtained his pilot's licence around the time of his debut. When he was taking a break from his music career, he worked as a pilot.

The musicians on the album were all gorgeous, including Dave Grusin (kyd), Marcus Miller (b), Buddy Williams (ds), Bernard Wright (kyd), Omar Hakim (ds) and many other young to mid-level New York musicians of the time. Marcus, Omar and Bernard were actually all from Tom's band and were like his younger brothers. Bernard was only 15 years old. ＜The singer of Funkin' For Jamaica was a female singer called Toni Smith, who sang with the punch of a small Chaka Khan.

After that, Tom released albums consistently until the late 1980s. If you like urban funk in the 80s, you have to be Thom Browne.

Club Nouveau is an American R&B group formed by record producer/performer Jay King in 1986 in Sacramento, California, following the breakup of the Timex Social Club. The group's name (French for "Club New") was changed from its original incarnation, "Jet Set", to capitalize on the breakup. The group was signed by Warner Bros. Records, on which Club Nouveau released its first three albums. Club Nouveau's go-go version of Bill Withers's song "Lean on Me" won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 1987.