Naked Music NYC – It’s Love

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Led by songwriter Jay Denes, this soulful Acid Jazz features NYC Players, such as members of Groove Collective. The collective that created the original “What´s On Your Mind?” album was a veritable who´s who of nineties soul and acid jazz musicians.Naked Music was assembled by Denes, along with vocalists Ada Dyer and Catherine Russell, over the course of 1997

The group was formed, says Denes, in order to create beautiful and classic soul music. In recording as Naked Music, Denes recruited several of his friends in the New York music community; most of whom had worked on the albums defining the late ninety´s New Soul Revolution. Jonathan Maron played bass on albums by D´Angelo and Maxwell, and is the regular bassist in Groove Collective. Bob Power, close friend and mentor to Denes and guitarist for the original Naked Music, is responsible for engineering some of the most critically acclaimed records of the nineties (A Tribe Called Quest, Erykah Badu, De La Soul, The Roots). Playing bass on several songs was Dave Boonshoft, Denes´ partner in their Soho Naked Music NYC recording studios, who also played on classic records ranging from Run DMC to Ultra Nate. Other musicians in the Naked Music family include keyboardist Itaal Shur, co–writer of Maxwell´s hit “Ascension,” guitarist Mark Anthony Jones and flutist Richard Worth (Nuyorican Soul), saxophonists Bob Magnusson (Frank Zappa) and Dave Jensen (Groove Collective), and drummer Genji Siraisi (Groove Collective, Repercussions).