Funk legend Maceo Parker is to release his first new studio album in 8 years. ‘Soul Food - Cooking with Maceo’ will be released on 26 June and will be the first album on the Mascot Label Group new imprint, The Funk Garage.

It is almost impossible to separate which came first, Maceo or the funk. He has played with each and every leader of funk, starting with James Brown throughout the 1960s and beyond, then jumping aboard the Mothership Connection with Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as a decade long collaboration with Prince.