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Best 10 Funky Jazz Albums

Jazz with a groove deep enough to lose yourself in.

  1. 1

    Head Hunters – Herbie Hancock

    1973 — the funk-jazz crossover that changed everything

  2. 2

    Mwandishi – Herbie Hancock

    1971 — electric and cosmic before Head Hunters

  3. 3

    Thrust – Herbie Hancock

    1974 — deeper, darker, heavier groove

  4. 4

    Street Lady – Bob James

    1973 — CTI Records funk at its smoothest

  5. 5

    Blow Your Head – Fred Wesley & The JB's

    1974 — James Brown's band pure funk genius

  6. 6

    Black Byrd – Donald Byrd

    1973 — jazz trumpet meets Philly soul and funk

  7. 7

    At Last – Grover Washington Jr.

    1979 — saxophone soul-jazz that grooves nonstop

  8. 8

    Fat Albert Rotunda – Herbie Hancock

    1969 — where Herbie first found the funk

  9. 9

    Red Clay – Freddie Hubbard

    1970 — CTI fusion with irresistible rhythm

  10. 10

    Expansions – Lonnie Liston Smith

    1975 — spiritual jazz-funk, cosmic and deeply groovy

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