What do you get when you mix a poppin’ boogaloo beat, a chilled-out dub bassline delivered via the airy whump of a sousaphone, and some Jamaican nyabingi-jazz vis-à-vis a few layers of synth and horns? Buru Style!

For the past several years the New England and New York based group has worked as an instrumental unit and has also backed great soul and reggae vocalists such as Toussaint Liberator, Ajahni, Shasha Marley and Lady Lee. They’ve performed at major jazz and reggae festivals, in thea...