Word: funke
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...released 15 albums over her 10-year career, all on her own label, Righteous Babe Records, based in Buffalo. Her most popular album, Dilate (1996), sold more than 500,000 copies. Her new CD, the double album Revelling/Reckoning, is her most ambitious, most accomplished work yet, melding folk, jazz, funk and rock into music that's as elemental and unpredictable as the weather...
...whole room, as was the case when he led both the band and audience in a recreation of traditional West African call-and-response. The band’s spontaneous transitions all seem triggered by Summers, as when he guided the band out of Herbie Hancock’s funk classic “Chameleon” into a traditional New Orleans second-line march, compelling the audience to their feet to bounce—in the absence of dancing room—along with the band...
Revelling is orange CD, and contains son that are edgy and upbeat. DiFranco and company begin with “Ain’t that the way,” a jazz-funk missive in which the bass and trumpet dominate. The style is reminiscent of smoky jazz clubs, which feature a hodgepodge of instruments competing for solos, but melding together in a logical fashion...
Friday the 13? It seems triskaidekaphobia is sort of passe by now. But hell, I’ll take any excuse to make a list. So here goes, a superstitious mix-tape: Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” (one of the greatest funk basslines of all time), Janet Jackson’s “Black Cat,” Thelonious Monk’s “Friday the 13th,” Cream’s version of “Born Under a Bad Sign,” and all the great...
...noughties?). Time to play name that tune, a fairly easy version:1) “Come tomorrow / Tomorrow I’ll be gone” 2) “I’m dreaming away / Wishing that heroes, they truly exist” 3) “Our funk zooms like you hit the Mary Jane” 4) “I’ve got a premonition / This girl’s gonna make me fall” 5) “I’ve been on the outside looking in / Let me into your heart?...