Tito's Dumpling Machine

New Orleans bassist George Porter Jr., of the Meters, is releasing a new jazz-funk single, “Tito’s Dumpling Machine", from the upcoming album 'Porter's Pocket'. The recording features the current quartet rendition of his long-standing project, The Runnin’ Pardners.

“Tito’s Dumpling Machine,” has all the qualities that rare-groove crate diggers have always looked for from Porter. Drum breaks galore, a syncopated New Orleans pocket, and a funky Hammond organ lead will more than scratch the old-school Meters itch that many fans have.

An innovator of funky music, Porter gives credits his hometown, “before there was ‘funk’ as people call it, New Orleans musicians always had a way of using rhythm in a way nobody else was. I am just a student of Earl King and George French and that musical school and somewhere along the way, people out there decided it was ‘funk.’”