If you are searching for the very roots of Funk this compilation is the right place to start. This is a great selection of music through which you immediately get into the groove of what is at the source of Funk syncopation. The album opens with Dizzy Gillespie’s Manteca one of the foundations of Afro Cuban Jazz and develops through an incredible array of fundamental names in the history of Jazz and related music. A full catalogue of standards and hits such as Herbie Hancock’s Watermelon Man Horace Silver’s Opus de Funk and some more obscure gems like Slim Gaillard’s hot latin number Yo Yo Yo the infectious riddim of Count Ossie’s First Gone and Sun Ra Afro-Futuristic hymn A Call For All Demons.

Side A:
1. Dizzy Gillepsie - Matenca
2. Slim Gaillard - Yo Yo Yo
3. Sun Ra - New Day
4. Bobby Timmons - This Here
5. Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man
Side B:
1. Moondog - Moondog Symphony (Part 1 : Timberwolf)
2. Count Ossie And The Wareikas - First Gone
3. Thelonious Monk - Monks Dream
4. Charles Mingus Septet - Slop
5. Horace Silver Trio - Opus De Funk
6. Sun Ra - Call For All Demons