Understanding the genre.

Loose-Knit Funk! - The Chicken

Here is a sample of the work they do and to give me a better understanding of what modern jazz/soul/funk sounds like, if there is even a modern version of this genre? I will look further in to it as I'm not so 'in' with soul music. This video is also posted on their Facebook page so if this does not load, check their page out. I'v listened to this quite a few times now i overall i had quite a happy feeling from this music, without knowing i was bopping my head and feet along with the beat. So would class it as quite dance like and fun rather than the original connotation of jazz and soul music which was slow and which i closely related blues with this too (not sure why.) with literally just piano and saxophones. 

Researching into Jazz-funk which is the genre the band describes themselves as, Jazz-funk is a sub-genre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat (groove), electrified sounds.(James Brown.) So to me Jazz funk would be the contemporary approach, the genre is fairly recent, well I say recent I mean around the 70's and 80's. The idea of jazz-funk was to add a danceable rhythm to the music and became popular in the UK nightclubs. I instantly thought of the film 'Dreamgirls' associating it with jazz funk, I will watch this to get a further understanding of the lifestyle and heritage.