Visually and aurally arresting was Parlor Social, a group that described themselves as Speakeasy Soul – as if Cab Calloway, OutKast and Lauryn Hill had a baby (though this writer would switch out Hill for Teena Marie in that description).
Parlor Social is set to perform a full set of their speakeasy-soul/ prohibition funk original music at the Playboy Jazz festival (PJF) in the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday June 10, 2018.