This is one big funk party from the moment Tom Browne blows his trumpet, voices start to chatter and Marcus Miller’s thunderous bass begins to rumble.

It’s irresistible, capturing the vibe of DJ Kool Herc’s early block parties in the Bronx, and commercial enough for the pop charts – spending a month at No.1 in America in 1980.

Jazz trumpeter Browne was born and raised in the Queens neighbourhood of New York that gives its name to the song – Funkin’ for Jamaica (N.Y.). 

The vocals are by Toni Smith, who helped compose the song, which topped the US charts for a month and reached the UK Top Ten.

Tom Browne, a childhood pianist who studied trumpet at music school in New York, had risen to fame in the jazz world, playing with Sonny Fortune and Lonnie Smith, and cited Freddie Hubbard as an influence. He was also a qualified commercial pilot.

 It was when he turned to funk that he found mainstream success and this was the commercial highlight of his career. It was followed a month or two later by another R&B single, Thighs High (Grip Your Hips And Move). 

Despite his success, he largely dropped out of music by the end of the ’80s, but returned in the mid-’90s with a handful of albums before abandoning the biz altogether.