Flea: P-Funk Jazz
Michael Peter Balzary, better known as Flea, made a decision that few saw coming. He set out to pick up the trumpet again and practice every day for a year. Whatever came out of that exercise, he would capture it on a record. Before the bass, Flea was passionate about the trumpet. He even played it on recordings with Jane's Addiction, Fishbone, and Nirvana. His original love was always jazz, the jazz of Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie. That was his world until the original guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers led him toward the bass. That’s what Honora is about. It’s a jazz album made by a rock musician who feels somewhat like an outsider in that territory. But there are strands of jazz so strange and so open that they make room for everyone: Sun Ra, Sonny Sharrock, Patty Waters, Frank Zappa, John Zorn, Kendrick Lamar, and even André 3000. Jazz has always had space for those who don’t quite fit in. Flea isn’t embarking on this adventure alone. He’s doing it alongside Josh John...
