Channel Zero

If you think this doesn't fit on the ESP-Disk' roster, presumably you've overlooked the funky party music of Don Moore (ESP 2016-2) and Woodstock Workband (ESP 2010-2) and/or you've never seen Defunkt rip it up in concert. Every member applies jazz chops, rock energy, avant-garde risk-taking, and punk disregard for rules to the task of pushing killer tunes into new territory. The band has had more than a few lineups, but in the late 2000s it coalesced around a reunion of one of it's classic configurations and hit the road. This set captures a 2009 club date in Germany and throws in a particularly hot passage salvaged from another club on another night as a bonus track. Joseph Bowie, vocals, trombone; John Mulkerin, trumpet; Bill Bickford and Ronny Drayton, guitars; Kim Clarke, bass; Kenny Martin, drums.