Menahan Street Band Make The Road By Walking

Menahan Street Band & Charles Bradley (Jazz Fest Wien 2011)Background informationOrigin, United StatesGenres,Years active2007 – presentLabelsDunham Records,Associated acts, El Michels Affair,MembersThomas Brenneck (guitar)(bass)(drums)Mike Deller (organ)Dave Guy (trumpet)Leon Michels (saxophone)Menahan Street Band is a, -based instrumental band formed in 2007, that plays. The band features musicians from, and the. The group was founded by Thomas Brenneck while living in an apartment on Menahan St.

In the Brooklyn neighborhood of. Their debut album, was released in 2008 on Dunham, a sublabel of.Various songs from Make the Road by Walking have been by artists, including the title track, which was sampled by on the track ', 'Going The Distance', which was sampled by on his song 'Solo Dolo Pt.II' featuring on Cudi's third studio album, and 'The Traitor,' sampled by on his mixtape and by Cudi on his debut album. In addition, the song 'Tired of Fighting' is used as a primary sample in 's 'Faith' from his eponymous 2009 EP, as well as 's 2019 track 'Family Matters' from his debut album.

Menahan Street BandMake the Road by WalkingRating: 3.5Label: DAPTONELast year Jay-Z, Amy Winehouse and Sharon Jones trotted out the sounds of soul to great success. Of course, tastes are cyclical but something about this soul revival sounded fresh and alive. With “Roc Boys,” from his return-to-form American Gangster CD, Jay-Z crafted a single that not only featured his much-ballyhooed rhymes, but a kick-ass sample. Though that sample’s sharp eighth notes and brassy horns may sound like something from a Blaxploitation film from the ’70s, Hova cribbed the tune from “Make the Road by Walking,” the first 45″ single by the Menahan Street Band.Though they reach into the past, the music on Make the Road by Walking is the sound of today. A joint endeavor by musicians in the Dap-Kings, El Michels Affair, Antibalas and the Budos Band, Menahan Street Band is a supergroup of sorts, a collaboration of the guys behind the hits. Kicking off the album is the title track which, after “Roc Boys,” sounds familiar, as if the tune has been with us for decades. But freed from Jay-Z’s verses, the song takes on a life of its own.

This is the definition of cool, a relaxed soul sound that could fit in anywhere from a barbershop in Brooklyn to a pig roast on the beach. It is warm, summery music for the 21st century bachelor pad.Behind Menahan Street Band is Thomas Brenneck, of Dap-Kings fame, who used his Brooklyn apartment to record the sessions. On tracks such as “Karina” and “The Traitor,” Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly album comes to mind. But this is the goods without the vocals. For all the unsung session players who toiled behind Ray Charles, James Brown and Mayfield, Menahan Street Band is the culmination of a journey from obscurity that gives a face to the men behind the brand name. The bass and horns are the rhythmic superstars on “The Contender”; there are no vocals here, no drugged-out siren superstars to get in the way. We must face the music.By the time the band races to “Going the Distance,” the theme song from Rocky that closes the album, Menahan Street Band has proven that they are capable of carrying an entire disc without a Winehouse or a Jay-Z.

Though Bill Conti’s theme conjures images of Sly Stallone racing around Philadelphia, its inspirational schmaltz is the perfect close to an already rousing disc. But, however great the music sounds on disc, one must imagine Menahan Street Band is even more inspiring live. Like great jazz, recordings can do no justice to instrumental performance.by David Harris. David HarrisDavid Harris woke up one morning and decided to run a website. His life has been a prison ever since. Not sure what to do with his Journalism degree from Penn State and his MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, hopelessly alone after leaving an editor position at Tiny Mix Tapes, David Harris started Spectrum Culture in 2008. Besides all the stuff covered on SC, David also enjoys travel, hiking and NBA basketball.

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