Leeds, UK: the birthplace of funk? Not quite, but the hometown of the rising funk-jazz phenomenon, The New Mastersounds. By offering the first Jazz degree in Europe, Leeds College of Music attracted scores of talented musicians to this Northern former industrial hub to master forms of music that had been carried by cargo ships from across the Atlantic for decades. Now, like bringing coal to Newcastle, England's finest funk-jazz band journeys to the birthplace of funk for 3 performances that coincide with the 2007 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

• 1 hr 20 min
• Directed by

  Aaron Dunsay

  ,

  Marca Hagenstad

• Starring

  Eddie Roberts

  ,

  Simon Allen

  ,

  Joe Tatton

  ,

  Rob Lavers

  ,

  Peter Shand