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James Brown had layers, and the funk never stops ... the moment-to-moment electricity that only Brown could conjure on a live stage. Brown had an innate sense of pacing, knowing when to shout ...
Featuring James Brown's dynamism ... We have Bruno Mars, D'Angelo, Janelle Monae, Cory Henry. Funk will continue to live as long as there is music, and music is not going anywhere.
James Brown set the standard for dynamic live performance in American music ... writing hit songs calling for Black pride. As a progenitor of funk music, Brown with his band created a stripped-down, ...
The track, released today through HIGH IQ/EMPIRE, bridges the gap between classic funk and ... with a live band and, notably, includes never-before-seen footage of James Brown in the post-credits ...
By Elias Leight In early March, a new James Brown recording strutted onto a Billboard chart for the first time in more than three decades. But Brown, the incendiary funk pioneer who died in 2006 ...
The Ohio Players is one of many funk groups from Dayton that took off in the 1970s and '80s. In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. Instead of turning elaborate ...