Oneness Of Juju
James "Plunky" Branch is an American jazz saxophonist, songwriter, and music and film producer. He was born on July 20,1947. He founded the band Plunky & Oneness, which began as Juju in 1971 and was renamed twice (Oneness of Juju, Plunky & the Oneness of Juju) before it was given its current name in 1988. Branch is the president and founder of the independent record label N.A.M.E. Brand Records, through which he has released 25 albums. He has worked as a studio musician for The Cosby Show and has appeared on several avant-garde jazz albums. He has been Director of the Jazz Ensemble at Virginia Union University as well as an instructor of Afro-American Music History at Virginia Commonwealth University. One of Plunky & Oneness's songs, "Every Way But Loose", is featured on the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, playing on fictional radio station Paradise FM. In 2006 Plunky released the solo album Cold Heat, which featured the single "Drop." Branch has received two NEA Jazz Fellowships and was appointed to the Governor's Task Force for the Promotion of the Arts in Virginia. In 1999 he was recognized by Richmond Magazine as Musician of the Year for 1999.
Genre: jazz-funk
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Top Tracks
- African Rhythms
- Just Keep on Doin' It
- African Rhythms - Live in Washington DC, 1975
- Soul Love Now
- I Face East
- Happy Sunrise
- Every Way But Loose - Extended Version
- Breezin'
- Every Way but Loose - Instrumental
- Love's Wonderland
- Higher
- Always Have to Say Goodbye
- Run Away Bay
- (Family Tree) Make a Change
- Every Way but Loose - Remix
- Afrobeat
- African Rhythms - 45 Version Parts 1 and 2
- Liberation Dues
- Poo Too
- Incognito
Albums (13)
- Colin Curtis presents Jazz Dance Fusion Volume 4 (2024)
- Bush Brothers and Space Rangers (2022)
- Breezin' (2022)
- Space Jungle Luv (2021)
- Every Way But Loose (Extended Version) (2021)
- Black Love Alive Again (2021)
- The Craig Charles Trunk of Funk Vol. 1 (2020)
- Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story, 1975-1993 (2020)
- African Rhythms 1970-1982 (2020)
- African Rhythms (2018)
- Soul Jazz Records Presents Soul of a Nation: Afro-Centric Visions in the Age of Black Power (Underground Jazz, Street Funk & the Roots of Rap 1968-79) (2017)
- MAFBD - Instrumental Institution (Miles Away from Being Dizzy) (1970)
- Every Way but Loose (1982)
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