Artist description FunkMonk keeps funky beats at its core and piles on smooth vocals, heavy riffing, and total radio quality on top like so many layers on a cake.Think of taking "Hot 97" (or your local hip-hop/R&B station)and mixing all of the day's music together, then throw in a little bit of ol' skool "funky horn" soloing (a la Maceo Parker), and you got FunkMonk.

Music Style Funk/R&B/Rap

Musical Influences Thelonious Monk, Eve

Artist History Many years ago in a faraway place called Germany, the young saxophone player who would become the driving force behind FunkMonk was slowly developing an idea in his mind. Through his years at Berklee College of Music in Boston, through his move to New York City, Welf Dorr's mind was working.Welf added his funky interpretation of Thelonious Monk to the cauldron of modern groove music and came up with something out-of-this-world. Think of taking "Hot 97" (or your local hip-hop/R&B station)and mixing all of the day's music together, then throw in a little bit of ol' skool "funky horn" soloing (a la Maceo Parker), and you got FunkMonk. And when you're at a show, come up and say "hi" to Welf. Let him know you dig it.

Group Members Welf Dorr - saxophone, Kimberly Hester - vocals, Tosso Hettinger - guitar, Henock Temesgen - bass, Abegasu Shiota - keyboards, Walker Pettibone - drums

Instruments saxophone, keyboards, bass, drums, vocals, rhymes

Albums Live at the Knitting Factory

Location Brooklyn, New York - USA

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