U.S. jazz-funksters Lettuce are firmly rooted in the late-sixties/seventies when artists such as James Brown/Maceo Parker and Tower of Power held sway. With the popularity of disco in the late-seventies many erudite funksters crossed over, so we had the likes of Earth, Wind & Fire regularly raiding the charts.
As previously, this band are also close in spirit to The Meters who were pioneers of nascent funk/R&B, characterised by their 1969 hit ‘Cissy Strut’.
The interjection of a sharp twin-horn/brass section (Ryan ‘Zoid’ Zoidis, Eric ‘Benny’ Bloom) is a highlight as on opener ‘Grewt Up’ which reminds a little of the swing of Hugh Masekela’s ‘Grazing In The Grass’, although with suitably…

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