New York music Pioneers tour Russia with Funk Legend

New York City's Groove Collective tours Russia with Parliament FUnkadelic pioneer.

4/10/02

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Groove Collective hits Russia with Bernie Worrell

On April 27th and 28th, New York's genre bending groove pioneers, Groove

Collective, will take the stage in Moscow, joined by P-Funk co-founder,

Bernie Worrell. Having just returned from a European tour where they were

joined by legendary trombonist Fred Wesley ( James Brown, Horny Horns,

Parliament-Funkadelic), Groove Collective is clearly having a good year, but

more importantly , an inspiring one. "We are really excited to be playing

with funk heavyweights like Fred and Bernie;" says Drummer Genji Siraisi,

"It is an education to play classics like 'Pass the Peas, and ' Get Up for

the Downstroke with the musicians who created them!" For the Moscow dates,

Groove Collectives lineup will be: Bernie Worrell on Hammond B-3 and

Clavinet, Jay Rodriguez on saxophones and flute, Fatoye Chris Theberge on

percussion, Barney McAll on keyboards, Genji Siraisi on drums, Fabio Morgera

on trumpet and Jonathan Maron on Bass. Listeners can expect to hear not only

Parliament-Funkadelic classics, such as 'Red Hot Mama but to hear Mr.

Worrell stretching out on Groove Collective tunes as well as music by jazz

visionaries Sun Ra and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. " With a creative musician of

Bernies calibre," explains saxophonist Jay Rodriguez, "Theres no telling

where this music could go-his range is enormous." This would seem to be a

perfect fit, because as anyone who knows Groove Collective will tell you, a

single evening of music can include heavy funk, afro-cuban , electronica,

deep house and of course, jazz.

Groove Collective has recorded six albums to date, the last one "Live and

Hard to Find" was released on their own label and is available at their

website, www.groovecollective.com. They have toured and recorded with

artists as varied as Widespread Panic, The Dave Matthews Band and Grammy

winning Cuban Piano Legend Chucho Valdes. Though a busy touring band for

several years, GCs members found themselves happiest when dividing their

time between home and the road a little more evenly. " Were based in New

York and thats the creative environment thats made our music possible,"

explains percussionist Fatoye Chris Theberge, " So, in preparation for our

seventh album, weve decided to tour less frequently, and instead to focus

on writing, producing and remixing...." "And doing New York shows, " adds

bassist Jonathan Maron, " when we were on the road all the time, we

would never play at home more than twice a year-now we can get back into the

rhythm of having regular New York shows, where we have access to countless

guest musicians, vocalists and DJs....and we can go all night." Onetime

regulars at Manhattan nightspots such as Tramps, Wetlands, and Bowery Ballroom,

the bands moved all of its operations to Williamsburg Brooklyn to a club called Northsix

(www.northsix.com ). Catch their 4/20 show at North Six in Williamsburg Brooklyn,

details available at www.groovecollective.com
press contact: management@groovecollective.com