by Thom JurekIn 1994, acid jazz cum soul diva Monday Michiru jammed with members of the premier members of Japanese funk-jazz band Mondo Grosso for a club date. The beguiling result prompted the two acts to work together again in 1996, and Delicious Poison is the end result of that studio collaboration. Mondo Grosso is a deep-groove, funky, slippery bunch. Led by keyboard king Hashime Yoshizawa, they are at home in any setting as long as heavy, souled-out groove is the goal. Michiru, who had been working with numerous DJs and electronica mixologists to find her jazz voice realizes it here (and effortlessly, it seems). In fact, it is on Delicious Poison and its follow-up, Jazz Brat, that she learned to dig so deep into that voice she found it home and expanded her palette to include Brazilian and other Latin styles into her bag of tricks. Here she is pure soul-jazz diva. She's got the funk, the grease, the deep move for either singing straight...