DeLuca (Royal Groove) handpicked 20 contemporary jazz tracks for Laid Back Radio. The beat driven jazz sounds go from hot & raw, to smooth and electronic. It’s all there, lots of double bass, funky flute, electronic piano & female vocals. In other words…all things jazz. With the oldest track coming from 2002 - by the Joe McDuphrey Experience - you finally have a chance to know what jazz sounds like in this century.

Those tracks will be played in LDBK’s guest spot between the 10th and the 14th of April:

About Royal Groove

Royal Groove started in 1997 as a radio show at a local station in the Netherlands. With an unlimited enthusiasm, a couple of self produced breakbeats and a bunch a funk and soul records, Gibbs & DeLuca made a weekly show that had at least one dedicated fan -the infamous dr Orion- tuning in every Tuesday night.

With the arrival of the interwebs Gibbs and DeLuca thought it was the perfect opportunity to reach a much bigger audience, and so the idea of Royal Groove Webradio was born.

At the end of 1999, the release of the first edition of the Royal Groove website was a fact. Soon after the website’s opening the worldwide audience started growing, and the Royal Groove-crew started producing show after show.

Originally focusing on funk and soul music, Royal Groove has grown to encompass all types of black music, historical and contemporary, starting with funk and soul, and going from jazz to bossa nova, from hiphop to latin, afro-beat and everything in between. The idea behind Royal Groove however remains the same: using mass media to spread funk, soul and jazz music.

Royal Groove Webradio
Picture “For the Record” by DeLuca