Today’s Brooklyn Funk Essentials is built on the nuclear six-piece of Anna Brooks (sax & vocals), Desmond Foster (guitar & vocals), Lati Kronlund (bass), Alison Limerick (vocals), Hux Nettermalm (drums) and Iwan VanHetten (trumpet, keyboards & vocals). But the BFE thing started over twenty years ago, in Arthur Baker’s Shakedown studio on Pavonia Avenue in Jersey City.