Karl Denson is a funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 and jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 saxophonist, flutist and vocal

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

ist from San Diego, California

San Diego, California

San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...

. He was a member of Lenny Kravitz's

Lenny Kravitz

Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and arranger, whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, R&B, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads...

 band and has co-founded and led The Greyboy Allstars

The Greyboy Allstars

The Greyboy Allstars are a San Diego funk and jazz group created in the early 1990s. The group began as collaboration of DJ Greyboy with Karl Denson during weekly shows at the Green Circle Bar in San Diego and on the DJ Greyboy albums Home Cooking and Freestylin’...

. Denson has recorded with artists including Jack DeJohnette

Jack DeJohnette

Jack DeJohnette is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. He is one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th century, due to extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians like Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett and Sonny...

, Dave Holland

Dave Holland

Dave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....

, Blind Boys of Alabama, Blackalicious

Blackalicious

Blackalicious is an American hip hop duo from Sacramento, California made up of rapper Gift of Gab and DJ/producer Chief Xcel . They are noted for Gift of Gab's often "tongue-twisting", multisyllabic, complex rhymes and Chief Xcel's "classic" beats...

, Stanton Moore

Stanton Moore

Stanton Moore is a drummer raised in Metairie, Louisiana. Most widely known as a founding member of Galactic, Moore has also pursued a solo recording career and recorded with bands as diverse as jazz-funk keyboardist Robert Walter and heavy metal act Corrosion of Conformity...

, and Jon Foreman

Jon Foreman

Jonathan Mark Foreman is the lead singer, lead guitarist, main songwriter and co-founder of the alternative rock band Switchfoot. He started Switchfoot in 1996 with drummer Chad Butler and bassist Tim Foreman ....

 of the rock band Switchfoot

Switchfoot

Switchfoot is an American rock band from San Diego, California. The band's members are Jon Foreman , Tim Foreman , Chad Butler , Jerome Fontamillas , and Drew Shirley .After early successes in the Christian rock scene, Switchfoot first gained mainstream...

. As of 2007 he continues to lead his own Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and Karl Denson Trio (KD3).

Members of Karl Denson's Tiny Universe include Denson (saxophone, flute), Ron Johnson (bass), Chris Littlefield (trumpet), Brian Jordan (guitar), David Veith (keyboards) and John Staten (drums).

Newest guitar player D.J. Williams joins summer of 2011

KD3 is Denson with keyboardist Anthony Smith

Anthony Smith

Anthony Smith is, among other things, an explorer, author and former Tomorrow's World television presenter. He is perhaps best known for his bestselling work The Body , which has sold over 800,000 copies worldwide and tied in with a BBC television series, known in America by the name...

 (Global Funk, Giant People) and drummer Brett Sanders (brother of John Staten).

Selected discography

• Let Love Rule (album) (Lenny Kravitz) - (1989)
• Mama Said (Lenny Kravitz) - (1991)
• Blackened Red Snapper (solo album) - (1992)
• West Coast Boogaloo (The Greyboy Allstars) - (1995)
• Chunky Pecan Pie (Solo Album) - (1995)
• Herbal Turkey Breast
  Herbal Turkey Breast (album)
  Herbal Turkey Breast is an album by saxophonist Karl Denson released in 1996.-Tracklisting:#Dinosaurs 7:53#"D" as in David 6:53#Shuff Mountain 6:28#Crown Jewels Suite 16:49#Yusef 28 10:28...
  
  - (1996)
• A Town Called Earth (The Greyboy Allstars) - (1997)
• The D Stands for Diesel - (1997)
• Live (The Greyboy Allstars) - (1999)
• The Bridge (Karl Denson's Tiny Universe) - (2002)
• Dance Lesson #2 - (2002)
• Flyin' the Koop
  Flyin' the Koop (Stanton Moore album)
  Flyin' the Koop is the second solo album by New Orleans drummer Stanton Moore. The album includes funk, rock and jazz. Moore's line-up for Flyin' the Koop is in part a combination of musicians with whom he played at a "SuperJam" at Tipitina's during Jazz Fest 2000.Moore's concept for the album...
  
  (Stanton Moore
  Stanton Moore
  Stanton Moore is a drummer raised in Metairie, Louisiana. Most widely known as a founding member of Galactic, Moore has also pursued a solo recording career and recorded with bands as diverse as jazz-funk keyboardist Robert Walter and heavy metal act Corrosion of Conformity...
  
  ) - (2002)

Steve Winwood, About Time (album), Different Light (song) (2005

• Once You're There (EP) (Karl Denson's Tiny Universe) - (2006)
• What Happened to Television? (The Greyboy Allstars) - (2007)
• Lunar Orbit (Karl Denson Trio) - (September 2007)
• Brother's Keeper (Karl Denson's Tiny Universe)- (2009)

External links

• Karl Denson's Tiny Universe MySpace