Pat Van Dyke & DJ Prestige (FleaMarketFunk.com) join forces to bring you a night of LIVE jazz, soul, and funk at Fox & Crow.

Performing with an all-star 6 piece band + horn section, Pat Van Dyke will play 2 sets of his original music and feature tracks from 'Let The Horns Blow", a limited edition 7" vinyl release that drops on the same day: 9/23. DJ Prestige will spin all vinyl sets before, in between, and after the LIVE sets from the band.

FREE!

Stream / Pre-Order 'Let The Horns Blow":
https://recordbreakin.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-horns-blow

Watch Behind The Scenes footage for 'Let The Horns Blow':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA_oW6XuziM

Pat Van Dyke Bio:

Pat Van Dyke is a drummer, composer, producer, and band leader. Equally comfortable behind the drum kit, as he is penning compositions at the Fender Rhodes, PVD balances the rhythmic intensity of true-school hip hop with the rich harmony & refreshing subtlety of jazz. Drawing from a diverse palette of sounds, Pat’s music features live instrumentation alongside analog synthesizers, lush horns, and vintage keyboards, straddling the boundaries of electronic music, jazz, and golden era hip-hop.

Pat's music has been praised by tastemakers and DJs around the globe such as Gilles Peterson, Bobbito Garcia, & DJ Spinna, as well as being featured on such TV networks as FOX, NBC, MTV, VH1, & Comedy Central, and providing the soundtrack to viral videos from the likes of VICE Magazine & Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”.

Along with a rotating cast of NYC's finest musicians, PVD has brought his unique LIVE blend of soul-jazz & organic hip-hop to packed houses at The Blue Note, S.O.B's, NJPAC, The Knitting Factory, Southpaw, as well as other venues; large & small, throughout NYC & beyond. Recent releases include two full length LPs; ‘Technicolor HI-FI’ (Cotter Records), ‘Right On Time’ (Jakarta Records - Germany), a limited edition vinyl 7" with (mc) John Robinson entitled "Miles & Trane": a hip hop tribute to the two jazz legends, as well as a 7” Vinyl Release with the legendary DJ Spinna.

DJ Prestige Bio:

DJ Prestige has toured nationally as a DJ for the Lava/ Atlantic record label as well as opened for such diverse artists as Q-Tip, Bad Brains, and Joss Stone among many others while also doing parties for corporate clients such as Google, You Tube, KIA, Adidas, Universal Pictures, Victoria’s Secret, Major League Soccer, Nixon, Corbis, The Bethanny Frankel Show, SoulCycle, The Surfrider Foundation and more. Based out of Jersey City, NJ, he currently can be seen in residencies at the Ace Hotel in NYC as well as parties around the country. He is a Production Coordinator and Contributing writer on Dust & Grooves: Adventures In record Collecting, the first photo book on vinyl collectors and their collections by photographer Eilon Paz. He has been featured on the site, contributed exclusive all vinyl mixes and live sets to their events, as well as a featured writer in the second edition with an interview with Questlove and his record collection.

Prestige’s DJ style crosses genres like a good mix tape: Hip Hop, Rock, Funk, Soul, Reggae and beyond blend together seamlessly as he pays tribute to the philosophy of Bronx in the 1970’s. A time where there were no musical boundaries, only good music that brought a diverse audience together and kept them moving and grooving all night long.

Pat Van Dyke - Let the Horns Blow (EP)

Limited Edition 7" vinyl and Digital

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If we could calculate the damage done by human civilization in the name of progress or culture, it would probably be done in a way that would affirm our past and trajectory. The dystopian narrative that we ghost wrote through political mouthpieces would by polished up into shiny abstractions. Lost would be the blemishes and punch drunk love with profit and power dances.

But the music doesn’t lie. Music. The music that spans generations and casts longer shadows past the labels and trends, always tells the truth. The people who listen to the music as the hills hear cloud movement – who hear the music as the Earth listens to languages – for them…the music tells the real story. They aren’t lost in rhetoric and false dialogue. Beats and keys and horns and breaks and FUNK. Therein lies the truth. This is the true culture of human civilization. The language of progress is in the progression of chords and formulas of harmony.

The conductors of these manifestations of harmonious truths should be looked upon with reverence for their contributions. Truth speakers that are heard in dimly lit bars and brightly lit gatherings of audiophiles that understand their tongue are the mark of human accomplishment.

Enter Pat Van Dyke. Composer. Arranger. Producer. Prophet for the culture we call Music. This isn’t sound philosophy, this is a testament to human civilization. It’s not just FUNK. It’s a declaration of sovereignty in individual instrumentation funneled into 4 tracks of afro-beat; down, curve and right back up of the U in the FUNK. Writing and playing keys, drums, bass, guitar and percussion…the outcome was obvious – conquer from every angle. In fact, the only other players in this testimony of our times were Peter Lin (trombone), Richard Polatchek (trumpet), Bryan Beninghove (Tenor / Baritone Sax)…and though they were the horns in Let The Horns Blow, it was in the mind of Pat that these parts were born. In a departure from what we have come to expect from PVD over the course of his past few declarations on wax, less keyboard and synth are found between the grooves of his latest truth. Yet, the vibe still exists. The essence and nuance that we listen for is there. Whether written on keys, or as in the case of LTHB, on guitar…it’s absolutely the sound to counter the misleading representations of who we are as a musical culture. All stories begin somewhere and this one was composed, recorded and mixed in Jersey City, NJ with stereo mastering by Alessandro Perrotta (AVP Audio Engineering). Where you take it is anyone’s guess. What’s important is the story being told and shared. Because this is our culture and only we can keep the light aflame.

Eric SAESO Alvarez
www.thekithenmix.com