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This British funk group started as Hott Waxx in the first ’70s before becoming Hi-Tension. Business lead vocalist, principal songwriter, and keyboardist David Joseph, bassist Ken Joseph, guitarist Paul Phillips, percussionist Jeff Guishard, saxophonist Paul McLean, drummers David Reid and Paapa Mensah, trumpeter Man Barker, trombonist Peter Thomas, and saxophonists …

Germany’s Mardi Gras BB certainly are a vibrant jazz, funk, spirit, rock and roll, and hip-hop outfit using a distinctly swampy New Orleans experience, led with the charismatic Doc Wenz (aka Jochen Wenz) and ex – Grug Grug bass participant Reverend Uli Jug, who has sousaphone in the music group. …

The funky jazz group Manteca formed in Canada around 1979. People of the huge development included percussionists and drummers Charlie Cooley and Matt Zimbel, trumpet guys Rick Tait and Steve McDade, percussionist and banjo picker Artwork Avalos, bassist Henry Heillig, saxophonists John Johnson and Phil Dwyer, and keyboardist Gordon Sheard. …

Among the cornerstone works from the U.K. retro-soul picture, the brand new Mastersounds perform taut, old-school instrumental funk having a modern energy and an excitement that has gained them rave evaluations and led these to collaborate with several major functions in Britain and america. THE BRAND NEW Mastersounds were shaped …

A fusion of feel-good go-go music with hip-hop’s unique block-party visual led DJ Kool towards the fore in rap’s go back to the older school through the past due ’90s. A experienced of D.C.’s go-go circuit who worked well like a warm-up DJ for Rare Substance through the early- to …

Along with wife Gwen McCrae, Miami, Florida-based artist George McCrae was a prime mover about the first disco front along with his personal R&B chart-topper “Rock and roll YOUR CHILD” in 1974. Created in 1944 in Western Palm Seaside, he created his personal vocal group in the first ’60s, which …

The bass guitar of Bob Babbitt continues to be an indelible component of the famed Motown sound — his melodic, jazz-inspired grooves propel a large number of the most remarkable hits from soul’s golden era, including Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered,” Smokey Robinson & the Wonders’ “The Tears of the …

An outlandish, in-your-face stage existence, a strange love of life, and a hard-driving funk audio that criss-crossed several musical limitations earned Cameo countless evaluations to Parliament/Funkadelic within their early days. Nevertheless, Cameo eventually used off accusations to be derivative by transcending their affects and outlasting nearly every single one of …

Best known while the drummer in Jimi Hendrix’s Music group of Gypsys, Friend Kilometers also had an extended solo profession that drew from rock and roll, blues, spirit, and funk in varying mixtures. Born George Kilometers in Omaha, NE, on Sept 5, 1947, he began playing the drums at age …

Along with Artwork Neville, Leo Nocentelli and Zigaboo Modeliste, Brand-new Orleans R&B bassist George Porter, Jr. was a founding person in the Meters, New Orleans’ top funk band from the ’60s and ’70s. Porter continued to be in demand like a program musician for quite some time, and Runnin’ Partner, …