Soulive

Since the end of the 1990s, jazz-funk trio Soulive have melded vintage soul-jazz with modern jazz-funk, sophisticated pop, and hip-hop. Their core membership includes guitarist/producer (and Lettuce co-founder) Eric Krasno, drummer and studio engineer Alan Evans, and Neal Evans on Hammond B-3 organ and keyboards (and a first-call sideman for many artists. While they record and play together as an instrumental trio, they have collaborated with horn players and vocalists. The band's 1999 debut Get Down! registered with college audiences and won them international touring spots with Karl Denson, Maceo Parker, and others. Between 2001 and 2003 they issued three Top Ten albums as part of a non-exclusive deal with Blue Note, including the number three Next. They shifted to Concord for 2005's Break Out. Between 2006 and 2007 they collaborated with vocalist Toussaint Yeshua, resulting in the band's Stax album No Place Like Soul. For 2009's Up Here, their Royal Family debut, they recruited vocalist Nigel Hall and a horn section. The following year Soulive delivered an instrumental tribute to the Beatles entitled Rubber Soulive, and Live at the Blue Note Tokyo that featured jazz trumpeter Christian Scott in the horn section. 2012's Spark was a collaboration with Denson. Soulive spent the next five years on an informal hiatus while its members pursued other projects. They reunited for the studio EP Cinematics, Vol. 1 in 2018, and in 2021 issued Gettin Down at Hampshire College and re-released an expanded version of Get Down! ‎

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