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Rich Man (Concord Records, 2016) With Dianne Brooks. Back Stairs in My Life (Reprise Records, 1976) With Elkie Brooks. Live and Learn (A&M Records, 1979) With Peabo Bryson and Natalie Cole. We're the Best of Friends (Capitol Records, 1979) With Solomon Burke. Make Do with What You Got (Shout! Factory, 2005) With Jerry Butler. Power Of Love ...
Aurra was an American 1980s soul group, which, at the time of its biggest success on Salsoul Records, featured Curt Jones (guitar/vocals) and Starleana Young (vocals) and included Steve Washington (bass/guitar/drums), Philip Field (keyboards/synthesizers/vocals) and Tom Lockett (saxophone/percussion).
Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer, and an influential R&B, soul and funk musician. [1] He is known for his precise musical time-keeping [2] and his signature use of triplets against a half-time backbeat: the "Purdie Shuffle."
Lawrence "Yogi" Horton (October 1, 1953 – June 8, 1987) [1] was an American R&B, funk, jazz and rock drummer. Horton worked and recorded as a session and touring drummer with a wide variety of musicians such as Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Ashford & Simpson, David Byrne, Deborah Harry, Hall & Oates, Diana Ross, Kenny G, The B-52's, and Jean-Michel Jarre among ...
Shortchanged by Westbound Records in favor of The Ohio Players and Funkadelic, many of the band's original members left, and the band moved to Atlanta, Georgia, signing with Michael Thevis' Aware Records, where they released their final LPs Love Sign and Funk Pump before the group called it quits in 1976. All three of the funk albums they ...
The "Color Him Father" record sold over one million copies, and received a gold record awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America on 24 July 1969. It also won a Grammy Award for the Best Rhythm and Blues Song . [4] The Winstons struggled to secure gigs in the South with their multiracial composition and disbanded in 1970. [1]
Clyde Austin Stubblefield (April 18, 1943 – February 18, 2017) was an American drummer best known for his work with James Brown, with whom he recorded and toured for six years (1965-70). His syncopated drum patterns on Brown's recordings are considered funk standards.
In 2007, The New York Times stated, "Dumpstaphunk is the best funk band from New Orleans right now." [4]From annual performances at New Orleans' Jazz Fest — "The colossal low end and filthy grooves they threw down from the Gentilly Stage must have set a Jazz Fest record for baddest bass jams ever" (Bass Player magazine, 2012) [5] — to music rooms and festivals across the nation (Bonnaroo ...