Led by Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick, Incognito are the most enduring and successful band affiliated with the acid jazz movement.

The group appeared to be a one-and-done deal after Jazz Funk (1981) but returned early the next decade to record and perform at a steady rate, continually refining their feel-good hybrid sound with Jocelyn Brown, Maysa Leak, and Tony Momrelle among an assortment of featured and longer-term vocalists. Although Maunick and company have placed 15 singles on the U.K. pop chart, including a Top Ten version of Ronnie Laws’ “Always There” and Top 20 cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing,” their devotion to modernising ’70s soul, funk, disco, and crossover jazz has fostered a larger following in the U.S. Beginning with Tribes, Vibes and Scribes (1992) and continuing through Amplified Soul (2014), over a dozen of their albums have hit the Top Ten of Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz chart. Incognito closed out their fourth decade with Tomorrow’s New Dream (2019), on which Maunick was joined by Leak and other regulars such as Imaani, Joy Rose, and Vanessa Haynes.