JazzTimes (pp.112-113) - "[The best tune] is 'DFU', where Groove Collective lives up to its name and plays to its strength as a smoking funk band."
Groove Collective: Genji Siraisi (vocals, drums, programming); Jay Rodriguez (flute, bass clarinet, saxophone); Fabio Morgera (trumpet, flugelhorn); Barney McAll (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer); Jonathan Maron (bass instrument); Chris Theberge (drums, congas, bata, percussion).
Additional personnel: DeLouie Avant Jr., Eddie Bobe (vocals); Liberty Ellman (guitar); Fred Wesley, Reut Regev (trombone); Victor Axelrod (Fender Rhodes piano); Tony Rodriguez (guiro).
The Grammy-nominated jazz-fusion ensemble Groove Collective combines elements of dance music, R&B, and funk in an eclectic brew that conjures Fela Anikulapo Kuti jams on "DFU," 1960s Miles Davis on "Centerfield," and 21st century trance music on "Eat No Space." The band knows its jazz and funk history inside out, and on cuts like the percolating Latin groove of "Mambomongo" and the sinuous Afrobeat of "6 For Fred," it proves it has the chops to back up its revelatory musical archaeology.