Customer Reviews

We the People

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I love funk, acid-jazz, acid-funk and jazz. I am a musician and can be very picky about my funky/jazz music. This album is one of my favorites. If your a horn lover and you like Jamiroquai, the Brand New Heavies or just love a funky groovy sound that is not sampled... this is a must hear.
You have great guitar, horns, drums, flute and bass.
These guys know how to make great music for the acid-jazz/funk lovers and they WILL make you feel good.

I've been seeing GC for years, and you'll never capture the fatness of their sound on CD as well as you can live. But We The People comes pretty damn close. This is a great album to party or get loose to, and on top of that, Fly is one of the most inspired songs ever written. I think the GC combine styles and sounds better than anyone doing acid/fusion/latin/whatever/jazz today. Check out Declassified, Dance of the Drunken Master, and their first album too. And definitely catch a show.

This CD has such great sounds and such good feel. If you ever get a chance to see these guys, please do! One of the most talented bands that I have listened to/seen in a really long time! Excellent treat out of New York. Check out Fat Mama, Liquid Soul, and Imperial Dub if you like this!

I keep coming back to this amazing group of musicians. Every album reveals a new side of Groove Collective. Dance of a Drunken Master especially deserves heavy attention. The electronic sounds might be annoying at first to jazz heads but focus on the contrast of these tunes (like St. Gallen or Tangenziale) versus the mellower ones (dig Fabio's fantastic trumpet on Floating or the entire World Bank).

Groove Collective is always able to stir up just the right mix of styles and sound effortlessly fresh while doing it. Fly comes to mind from the "We The People" album mixing smooth R&B funk with Afro-Cuban patterned mayhem. They continue to get away with these musical melanges here: Que te pasa'ti (combining a style that I consider their own with piano-driven montuno salsa), Tangenziale (riff GC funk with drumnbass), and World Bank (classical harpsicord with jam-band explosives). I never get enough of the collective styles that emerge from this group.

I highly recommend buying at least the first 3 GC albums. I consider them to be among the best recordings of the '90s:

1 - Groove Collective (1993)

2 - We The People (1996)

3 - Dance of the Drunken Master (1998)

Groove Collective has done it once again. A truely funky acid jazz/jazz mix with some hip-hop vocals thrown in. Always a great live show, this album has captured the spirit and soul of the wold-reknowned band hailing from Brooklyn, NY.

Track 4, the title track is PHENOMINAL, and even better live in the small intimate jazz venues of Manhattan!

Also check out "The Groove Collective" and "Dance of the Drunken Master", both are truely excellent as well.

Get this CD, and keep groovin'!

Groove Collective is one of the most talented groups I've ever heard. Slick, smooth, stimulating, intricate... God himself sits in on trumpet on "Fly." One of my favorite CDs; I hear some new audio treat every time I listen to it.

Crazy talented, super diverse and culturally broad. They will make you want to shake your booty.

the best thing about this album is its versatility, and its ablility to lift you up. the music is really upbeat and encorporates so many different styles (hip hop, latin, jazz, funk, even disco) that you arent really sure what you are listening to. all you know is that you really like it. i would recommend buying this album because it is very well rounded. groove collective is one group you should not let get past you. it reall deserves 41/2 stars.

The CD put me to sleep. There are a couple tracks with solid brass but if you are a horn player like me you will much prefer fusion group Liquid Soul. The feel of this album was more of a smooth jazz easy listening groove. The vocals are alright and the group is polished, but for brass enthusiasts, people who prefer classic, fast instrumentals and and upbeat percussion beat I'd suggest continuing your quest for other ensembles.