KASHMERE STAGE BAND “Bumper To Bumper Soul” CD

The second album recorded between 1969 and 1970 by the KASHMERE STAGE BAND, the pinnacle of high school funk bands from Houston, Texas, is a work rich in groovy jazz funk, featuring covers of famous songs in thrilling, fast-paced, hot-blooded funk!

Kashmere High School was located in the black residential area of Houston, Texas. In the late 1960s, when black power was raging and funk music was gaining momentum, teacher Conrad O. Johnson was appointed to the school and transformed the brass band into a funk band with his keen sense of the times and leadership. This unique funky brass band was a big success, winning consecutive national contests, but it didn't stop there, releasing eight albums from 1969 to 1975 and touring Europe and Japan (!). Their recordings are a storm of funk and jazz funk, worthy of the name rare groove, with amazing performances that you wouldn't expect from high school students! However, since it is a student band record, naturally the number of copies pressed was less than 1,000... Due to the funk content and rarity, all the original LPs were coveted by collectors. The eight albums left by the Kashmere Stage Band are released for the first time in the world! All at once in paper jacket CDs!

■The second album, recorded between 1969 and 1970, is also being reissued straight for the first time in the world! While it is an extension of the previous work, it is a work with a high content of groovy jazz funk, covering famous songs with hot, fast funk! The compilation album "Texas Thunder Soul" released by obsessive digger EGON on Now-Again, a subsidiary of Stones Throw, introduced the existence of the Kashmere Stage Band and their amazing funky brass band sound to the world, and even included three songs from this album: "Boss City," "Thank You" (Sly Stone), and "Take Five" (Dave Brubeck).