Jazz, funk and Southern soul come together on a new CD by New Orleans drummer Stanton Moore. Moore's driving rhythms are attributed to some of the city's most influential musicians. Stanton Moore's ...
"You call it funk drumming but the guys I know that play that music have depth - a pretty serious range of influences that they draw upon to create those funky beats. To me, that's as deep as the jazz ...
He may have experimented with more styles than Nicky Clarke, but funk stands out as UK session star Paul Jones' passion. Whether playing to packed-out stadiums with popsters Cleopatra, backing up ...
Rock Candy Funk Party (RCFP) is a collection of groove loving musicians bringing a fresh and funky vibe to the world of jazz. The band formed around 2009 when drummer Tal Bergman and guitarist Ron ...
Photos: Ken Spielman , Jamie Huenefeld , Marc Millman “When three modern groove masters of modern funk and soul-jazz converge ...
Over the course of his 20-year career, drummer Stanton Moore has become known as one of the premier funk musicians of his generation. On his latest album, Conversations, he moves in a slightly ...
Contemporary funk heavyweights Eddie Roberts, Stanton Moore, and Robert Walter have come together to form a new supergroup, ...
In strictly musical terms, funk was the ‘70s child of ‘60s R&B; and rock. Funk adopted rock’s preference for emphasis on the downbeat, grafted on slinky R&B; syncopation and elevated the bass to ...
Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...