Plunky

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Every Way But Loose 03:40 Tools
African Sunset 03:40 Tools
Drop 04:57 Tools
Only You 04:57 Tools
Drive It 04:22 Tools
More Than Meets the Eye 04:31 Tools
Hop Skip & a Jump 04:46 Tools
Synchrofunkinicity 04:31 Tools
Where There Is Love 04:59 Tools
A Swing In Everything 04:37 Tools
Toy Box 04:28 Tools
Funk In Full Effect 04:28 Tools
A favorite Place 04:46 Tools
Does Everybody Do It 04:47 Tools
Nevertheless 04:16 Tools
Rain 05:24 Tools
Line Dancers 04:34 Tools
Feel Free 04:39 Tools
The Meaning of Life 04:30 Tools
Does Everybody (paris Mix) 04:34 Tools
Hollar Back 04:27 Tools
African Rhythms Mix 04:27 Tools
Gotta Keep Movin' 04:34 Tools
Life 04:34 Tools
Getting It Right 05:05 Tools
Does Everybody Do It - Cold Heat 04:44 Tools
The Meaning of Life - Cold Heat 02:34 Tools
The Near Future 04:43 Tools
Drop (African Rhythms Mix) 04:44 Tools
In This World 04:01 Tools
Why Don't You Love Me 04:12 Tools
What It Is Is What It Is 04:10 Tools
It's You 04:10 Tools
Drop - single 04:10 Tools
Intro 00:56 Tools
Drop - African Rhythms Mix 04:39 Tools
On Fire 03:19 Tools
Gotta Keep Moving 04:33 Tools
Word of Mouth 04:17 Tools
Rocking Steady 04:35 Tools
Gotta Get Up 04:17 Tools
While It Lasts - Plunky On Fire 00:00 Tools
Insights 04:35 Tools
Life- You're Full Of It 04:22 Tools
Rise Up 04:22 Tools
Does Everybody (Live Mix) 00:00 Tools
NEW RELEASE - Plunky On Fire 00:00 Tools
Like Crazy 00:00 Tools
Cold Heat 04:22 Tools
Burning Embers - Plunky On Fire 00:00 Tools
Too Funky For Words 04:22 Tools
Can't Hold Back 00:00 Tools
Burning Embers 04:22 Tools
International Love 04:22 Tools
Just Keep on Doin' It 04:22 Tools
On Fire - Plunky On Fire 04:22 Tools
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Saxophonist J. Plunky Branch is an experienced performer, songwriter and music and film producer. He is president of his own independent record label, N.A.M.E. Brand Records, through which he has released 25 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 in the 1980’s. He has appeared on avant-garde jazz albums by Pharaoh Sanders, Hamiett Bluiett and others. Nowadays Plunky spends his time leading his band onstage playing rousing funk, R&B, jazz, African, reggae, gospel and rap and making music in his recording studio. Plunky’s European touring has taken him to England, France, 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 twice to Cuba to research and produce music recordings and a documentary film, Under the Radar – A Survey of Afro-Cuban Music. His latest releases are the new 5-CD compilation Plunky & Oneness 2012 Collectors Box Set; two critically acclaimed CD’s Drive It and Cold Heat; and his DVD Plunky & Oneness of Juju - Live In Paris. With his group, Plunky & Oneness, he has opened shows for Patti Labelle, Ray Charles, Earth Wind & Fire, Yellow Jackets, and Frankie Beverly & Maze, LL Cool J, Chuck Brown, and more. Plunky & Oneness performed at the New Orleans World’s 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). Plunky’s 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 Governor’s 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 300 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! - See more at: http://www.plunkyone.com/biohistory/#sthash.Y1xOhl0J.dpuf Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.