Arlester "Dyke" Christian and his bandmates were packing the dance floor at one of their regular stomping grounds in Phoenix, the Elks Club on Seventh Avenue, when a man approached to ask whose song ...

A hard-hitting, six-piece outfit, FUNKY-FUNK! is headed by star British trombonist Dennis Rollins, who received an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2018. They come to Norwich Playhouse on Saturday ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. Miller honed his musical chops during funk’s ...

New York, NY - It has been almost 20 years since New York City boogied to the sounds of funk music legends The Funky Knights. Imagine a mixture of Barry White, John Lee Hooker and Sam Kinison and you ...

Today is the birthdate of Isaac Funk who with Adam Wagnalls gave us Funk & Wagnalls dictionary and encyclopedia. Tragically Funk died in 1912, well before he could get down to the music that would ...

Get on up! What is it about James Brown's music that makes it sound so funky? James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, created the DNA for funk. Musicians LA Buckner and Nahre Sol explore how he created ...

Homegrown hip-hop mogul Percy “Master P” Miller’s “farewell” performance at the 2025 Essence Festival of Culture in the Caesars Superdome was a big production with many guest stars. But it wasn’t his ...