Harmless Funk Archives
Harmless Funk: Ramblin’
Back in October, we shared a video of Harmless Funk, featuring bassist Dave Marks. The group performed the Meters’ classic, “Cissy Strut”. Dave just sent me the next video of the band from that same session. “This time it’s a cover of David Sanborn’s arrangement of [Ornette Coleman’s] ‘Ramblin’” he shared. “…bit more of a ‘bass-ey’ one.” We dig.
Harmless Funk: Cissy Strut
It has been a long time since we featured a video with bassist Dave Marks. Time to correct that. Dave just sent me a video with a newer project, Harmless Funk – a jazz/funk quintet he’s been playing with this year. Here they are doing one of the all-time great funk instrumental tunes – the Meters’ “Cissy Strut”.