{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Esoteric Funk | type = Album | artist = Hubert Eaves | cover = Esoteric Funk.jpg | alt = | released = 1977 | recorded = May 15–16, 1976 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz fusion<br/> Funk | length = 34:16 | label = Inner City Records / East Wind Records | producer = Hubert Eaves | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }}
'''''Esoteric Funk''''' is the debut and only album by keyboardist Hubert Eaves.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic |class=album |id=r54506 |tab=review |label=Hubert Eaves: ''Esoteric Funk'' > Review |first=Thom |last=Jurek |accessdate=8 September 2011}}</ref> }}
Released in 1977 on independent jazz label Inner City Records, the album was recorded with the help of James Mtume and Reggie Lucas.
==Track listing== All tracks composed and arranged by Hubert Eaves
#Call to Awareness #Painfull Pleasure #Slow Down #Flead Dancing #Song For Marlene #Under Standing
==Musicians== *Hubert Eaves - all keyboards, vocals on "Slow Down" *Reggie Lucas - electric guitar *James Mtume - congas, percussion *James "Fish" Benjamin - electric bass *John Lee - electric bass on "Slow Down" *Howard King - drums *Rene McLean - reeds, flute *James Stowe - trombone *Malachi Thompson - trumpet *Cheryl Alexander - vocals on "Under Standing"
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.discogs.com/Hubert-Eaves-Esoteric-Funk/release/1253111 Hubert Eaves-Esoteric Funk at Discogs]
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Category:1977 debut albums Category:East Wind Records albums Category:Hubert Eaves III albums Category:Inner City Records albums