Then there was the shock of learning that arguably funk music’s greatest instrumental, “Pick up the Pieces,” was created by a group of White musicians from Scotland. Maybe I should have ...

Some of the best funk songs of all time sound just as fresh as they did when they came out decades ago, which is beyond rare.

The 11 North Scott High School students are playing in a band – not a rock band and not a concert band, but something else ...

The music of James Brown was a distillation ... 1973), which translated the repetition and staccato rhythms of funk into an instrumental solo. The music as an element of black liberation is ...

Photo by Brittany Teuber Jazz-funk supergroup Nitecap has released its debut album, Things of That Nature, a 10-track set of original compositions that ...

Brazilian funk, at least out on the radical, thrilling, ear-frying, brain-scrambling fringes, is primarily a producer’s genre. It’s not that the songs are mostly instrumental. Vocals are a critical ...