Lettuce

Utilizing hip-hop, jazz, New Orleans R&B, blues, and rock in their gumbo, Lettuce is a New York-based collective who update the sound of classic '70s funk. The band's founding members include guitarists Eric Krasno and Adam "Shmeeans" Smirnof, keyboardist Neal Evans, drummer Adam Deitch, saxophonists Ryan Zoidis and Sam Kininger, and bassist Erick "E.D." Coomes. The group's debut long-player, Outta Here, wasn't released until 2002, on their tenth anniversary. By the time of its release, Krasno and Neal Evans were working members of Soulive, and Deitch had been a member of John...