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...The newcomer, po-faced Dr Sharon, is possibly the only person in the world who’s immune to Ted’s goofy charm....
...American saxophonist Gary Bartz paid his sideman dues with three modern jazz giants and played on Miles Davis’s acerbic 1971 avant-funk album Live-Evil....
...Released in 1972, Dr John’s Gumbo yielded a moderately successful single, “Iko Iko”, and was followed by two albums produced by Allen Toussaint and featuring The Meters, the house band of New Orleans funk...
...His backing band The Free Nationals are more audibly involved this time, playing an unvarnished, liberated variety of soul, R&B and funk....
...mehreen.khan@ft.com ; @mehreenkhn Letter in response to this briefing: Nuclear does much harm / From Dr David Lowry, Cambridge, MA, US...
...Alexander reflected on his 1961 move at 17 from Jamaica to Miami, to cue the “James Bond Theme” from Dr No....
...A Dr Dre protégé and polymath — he sings, raps, drums, produces — the 33-year-old Californian’s music is rooted in hip-hop and funk, while blending soul, jazz, gospel, R’n’B, psych and “sad white-boy music...
...The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience that Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain, by Gina Rippon, Bodley Head, RRP£20, 448 pages Sue Nelson is a science journalist and author of ‘Wally Funk’s Race for...
...P-Funk are one of the most sampled groups of all time, and Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg made P-Funk integral to hip-hop....
...The founder of Parliament and Funkadelic, otherwise known as the Prime Minister of Funk or Dr Funkenstein, is taking his P-Funk Mothership on a farewell tour....
...I run at least twice a week and I create playlists that stretch from classical to funk....
...“There are subgroups of Americans that have more concern about the risk [of vaccines] than others,” comments Cary Funk, associate director of research on science and society at the Pew Research Center....
...“Be Your Man” sets his unhurried vocal to a brassy funk shuffle, “Stompin’ Ground” is a Dr John-style New Orleans belter and “Ain’t Gonna Judge You” delivers a message of tolerance amid jabbing trumpets...
...“We call him Dr Frankenstein,” says Jerry, “because he’s got stuff running everywhere, until the song starts walking.”...
...Gradually, lines got longer, the funk funkier and twiddly bits soared into the upper register....
...It wasn’t just the samplers, swerves into hip-hop and crunchy harmonies that gave organist Dr Lonnie Smith’s trio such contemporary bite....
...Then Withers’ elegantly simple two-minute song found itself being not covered but sampled on 1996’s “No Diggity” by Blackstreet (featuring the rapper and future billionaire entrepreneur Dr Dre)....
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...The CD produced for this year’s new Hamlet contrasts music by Sola Akingbola, percussionist of jazz-funk band Jamiroquai, with the 1961 score by Alan Rawsthorne....
...This for us was a project about the whole planet — there is funk, rock, Afrobeat in this project. It’s the sound of the world”....
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...Over an infinitely extended funk beat, they struck ninja poses, engaged in call-and-response with the crowd, pogoed enthusiastically, revelled in bubbly clarinet and saxophone motifs....
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