Menahan Street Band

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Menahan Street Band

The Menahan Street Band & Charles Bradley (Jazz Fest Wien 2011)
Background information
Origin Brooklyn, New York, USA
Genres Afro-beat, Funk, Jazz, Soul
Years active 2007 – present
Labels Dunham Records
Associated acts Antibalas, Budos Band, El Michels Affair, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley
Members Thomas Brenneck (guitar)
Nick Movshon (bass)
Homer Steinweiss (drums)
Mike Deller (organ)
Dave Guy (trumpet)
Leon Michels (saxophone)

The Menahan Street Band is a Brooklyn, New York-based instrumental band formed in 2007, that plays funk and soul music. The band features musicians from Antibalas, El Michels Affair, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and the Budos Band. The group was founded by Thomas Brenneck while living in an apartment on Menahan St. in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. Their debut album, Make the Road by Walking, was released in 2008 on Dunham, a sublabel of Daptone Records.

Various songs from Make the Road by Walking have been sampled by hip hop artists, including the title track, which was sampled by Jay-Z on the track "Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)...",[1] and "The Traitor", which was sampled by Kid Cudi on his debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day and by 50 Cent on his mixtape War Angel LP.

Discography

Studio albums

Year Title Label
2008 Make the Road by Walking Dunham Records
2012 The Crossing Dunham Records

Singles

Title Format
The Menahan Street Band -"Make the Road by Walking" b/w "Karina" 7"
Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band -"The World (Is Going Up In Flames)" b/w "Heartaches and Pain" 7"
Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band -"The Telephone Song" b/w "Tired Of Fighting" 7"
The Menahan Street Band -"The Wolf" b/w "Bushwick Lullaby" 7"
Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band -"Heart Of Gold" b/w "In You (I Found A Love)" 7"
The Menahan Street Band -"The Crossing" b/w "Everyday a dream" 7"

References

  1. ↑ "The 100 Best Songs of 2007". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 27, 2007. 

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