American group The Greyboy Allstars has released the title song from Flair, an eleven-track album due on February 19. The musicians combined prepared material with improvisations reshaped after recording in Los Angeles. Inara George joins one track, while the announcement also sets out winter performances in New York and Southern California.
American band The Greyboy Allstars has set February 19 for the release of Flair and shared the album’s title song.[1], [2]
The eleven-track studio project includes a guest appearance by singer Inara George, a member of The Bird And The Bee, on What Color Is Love? The announcement also includes winter concerts following a November 27 hometown performance in San Diego.[1]
Guitarist and bassist Michael Andrews, also known as Elgin Park, and keyboard player Robert Walter brought some of the material into Andrews’s Los Angeles studio. Other pieces grew out of improvisational sessions that were reshaped afterwards. Walter says the musicians wanted to move further away from imitating favourite albums. Saxophonist and flautist Karl Denson, bassist and guitarist Chris Stillwell and drummer Aaron Redfield complete the lineup.[1]
The group first came together to accompany DJ Greyboy in the early 1990s. Its releases include West Coast Boogaloo from 1994 and A Town Called Earth from 1997. More recently, Get A Job collected ten covers recorded live in the studio during the Soul Dream online broadcasts in 2022. The rarities compilation Grab Bag: 2007-2023 followed in 2024. The January itinerary includes New York’s Winter Jazzfest and stops in Ventura, Pioneer Town and Los Angeles.[1]
