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A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that packed dance floors. John Blake says that today’s pop music, largely ...
While the genre originated in the mid-to-late sixties, funk music lives on today as some of the most powerful forms of creative expression. It’s a window of music that only a certain kind of ...
Get ready for an eclectic weekend of live music in Shanghai, where boundary-pushing artists ... pushing moody shades of instrumental jazz-funk with a DIY mentality. With a sound that pulls from 70s ...
Alberta Bair Theater will present UPTOWN: The Music of Motown on Saturday, April 12, at 7:30 PM. From New York City, the epicenter of contemporary Pop and Soul, Uptown is a group of men who ...
Since joining James Brown’s band 55 years ago this month, Collins has made sturdy, buoyant bass lines, which stretch out all over the place before returning to the one, the bedrock of funk.