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Since diving headlong into the wonderland of Snarky Puppy, the powerhouse band with whom he has won multiple Grammys, along the way working with the likes of David Crosby, Erykah Badu, Kirk Franklin, and 50 Cent, Fort Worth-based guitarist Mark Lettieri has plumbed his deepest waters in a string of solo albums. Starting with Knows (2011) and Futurefun (2013), then moving on to the Billboard-charting Spark and Echo (2016) and, most recently, the appropriately titled Deep: The Baritone Sessions (2019), Lettieri returns with Things Of That Nature, his most personal effort to date.

Vjekoslav Crljen – “Vjekoslav Crljen je hrvatski kontrabasist, skladatelj i aranžer. Rođen je 1972. godine. Pohađao je klasičnu glazbenu školu ‘Vatroslav Lisinski’ u Zagrebu, Odjel kontrabas, u klasi prof. Stanislav Lotko. Bio je višegodišnji član Big banda HGM-a pod ravnanjem prof. Sigi Feigla i Big banda HGZ pod ravnanjem prof. Zlatka Dvoržaka.

James Brown can seem like an insufferable braggart. He makes no bones about his greatness, proclaiming himself not only the King of Soul but the inventor of funk and the progenitor of rap and disco — not to mention a leading exponent of black pride. To hear him tell it, James Brown is one of the most dynamic and visionary musicians America has ever produced. After examining the evidence set forth in the seventy-two songs on Star Time, however, only one conclusion is possible: James Brown is far too modest.