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Stream “Black Indian Rain Dance” From The Royal Krunk Jazz Orkestra’s New Album ‘Pyramids’

August 30, 2019 By Sébastien Hélary

Trumpeter Russell Gunn is back with a new opus from his Royal Krunk Jazz Orkestra entitled Pyramids, released today via Ropeadope Records, which he describes as the second in a trilogy that began with 2016’s The Sirius Mystery.The following preamble, as excerpted from the album’s liner notes, will shed some light on the inspiration behind the record. “‘Egyptologists’ and … [Read more...]

The Royal Krunk Jazz Orkestra – ‘Get It How You Live’

July 13, 2018 By Anthony Dean-Harris

Russell Gunn's Royal Krunk Jazz Orkestra has a lovely familiarity to it. Wes Funderburk & Gunn's arrangements for his large ensemble, headquartered out of Atlanta (and recorded at my own alma mater, Morehouse College), calls up numerous black musical influences, like it's an album that could play solidly through the Tom Joyner Morning Show, only interspersed by the radio soap … [Read more...]

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