J. Plunky Branch - horns, vocals//
Tonya Lazenby-Jackson - keyboards, vocals//
P. Muzi Branch - bass//
Jamiah Branch Electronic percussion//
Derrick Simmons - drums//
Carl Lester El - guitar
Monica Smith - Vocals
Charlayne Page - Vocals//
Asante - African Percussion//
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John Coltrane// George Clinton// Gil Scott-Heron// Pharoah Sanders// Prince//Quincy Jones// Bob Marley// Fela Anikulapo Kuti// Hugh Masekela// Jill Scott// James Brown// EWF// Maze// Sly Stone// Sun Ra// Junior Walker// Maceo Parker// Kool & The Gang//
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Drop Video From The Coldheat Album
Arfican Rhythm MIX Video
Drop Video (The after party version)(ColdHeat)
Saxophonist Plunky Branch is an experienced performer, songwriter and music and film producer, and he is president of N.A.M.E. Brand Records, through which he has released 20 albums. At one time Plunky was a studio musician for television's top-rated sitcom, "The Cosby Show. His song Every Way But Loose was a top-ten soul music chart hit in London. He has appeared on avant-garde jazz albums by Pharaoh Sanders, Hamiett Bluitt and others. Nowadays Plunky spends his time leading his bandmates onstage playing rousing funk, R&B, jazz, African, reggae, gospel and rap and making music in his recording studio.
Plunkys European tours have taken him to England, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He twice toured Ghana, West Africa, once for the Ghana National Commission on Children, and again as a cultural specialist for the U.S. Information Agency. Recently he has performed in Paris, explored music business opportunities in Japan; traveled to Brazil and to Cuba twice to research and produce music recordings and a documentary film, Under the Radar A Survey of Afro-Cuban Music.
With his group, Plunky & Oneness, he has opened shows for Patti Labelle, Ray Charles, Earth Wind & Fire, Yellow Jackets, and Frankie Beverly & Maze and more. Plunky & Oneness performed at the New Orleans Worlds Fair, the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta (four times) and twice at the Hampton Jazz Festival in his native Virginia. For more than 15 years Plunky has toured continually with support from the Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA).
Plunkys career accomplishments are as varied as his music and his diverse interests, which include: African art and culture, history, digital technology, politics and the media. In addition to being a veteran saxophonist and composer, J. Plunky Branch has served as an administrator, lecturer and teacher. He has been a frequent arts panelist for the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Plunky is a two-time recipient of NEA Jazz Fellowships and he was appointed to the Governors Task Force for the Promotion of the Arts in Virginia. He has been Director of the Jazz Ensemble at Virginia Union University as well as an instructor of Afro-American Music History at Virginia Commonwealth University, both in Richmond.
Recognized by Richmond Magazine as Musician of the Year for 1999, Plunky is a sought after artist-in-residence and performer for public schools systems. He has written film scripts, journals of his travels, poems and over 200 songs.
Throughout his career Plunky has entertained and taught thousands, and in the process, has developed a broad and loyal following. During his 1987 West African tour, critics proclaimed Plunky "one of the greatest living saxophonist!" In a context where rhythm, ritual, power and emotion reign supreme, he just might be!
For further information contact: J. Plunky Branch, 2218 Rosewood Avenue, Richmond, VA 23220, 804-355-3586, Fax 804-355-7240, Email: plunkyb@aol.com
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Mark your calendars! Plunky will be interviewed on Talking Smooth Jazz, Sunday, March 29th at 1pm/pt - 4pm/et, on www.blogtalkradio.com/talking-smooth-jazz. Fans are welcome to call into the show and speak to him on (646) 716-5485.
