There’s something extra special in the air when Aftah Party brings it home on a Friday night. A 10-piece affair outfitted with two singers, a horn section, and the precocious scions of Knoxville’s greatest jazzman, the band rocks like Funkadelic, grooves like the J.B.’s, and jams like Sly and the Family Stone. And yet the music itself—carried along by the limber rapping and crooning of singers Melvin Ellis and Rhea Sunshine—bears the conspicuous imprint of ’90s and new-millenium soul and R&B. (Mike Gibson)






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