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CLEARWATER — Ruth Eckerd Hall has partnered with the Florida Smooth Jazz Foundation to present the third annual Clearwater ...
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The band will perform modern jazz, patriotic, and 1960s and ’70s funk era music. The concert also features instrumental and ...
For a time, countless performers wanted to look and sound like Sly and the Family Stone. The Jackson Five’s breakthrough hit, “I Want You Back,” and the Temptations’ “I Can’t Get Next to You” were ...
The singers screeched, chanted, crooned and hollered. The music was a blowout of frantic horns, rapid-fire guitar and locomotive rhythms, a melting pot of jazz, psychedelic rock, doo-wop, soul and the ...
Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82 by: HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press Posted: Jun 9, 2025 / 03:26 PM CDT Updated: Jun 9, 2025 / 05:30 PM CDT ...
Miles Davis’ landmark blend of jazz, rock and funk, “Bitches Brew,” was inspired in part by Sly, while fellow jazz artist Herbie Hancock even named a song after him.
Sly Stone, an electrifying musician, songwriter and showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s, has died.
Miles Davis’ landmark blend of jazz, rock and funk, “Bitches Brew,” was inspired in part by Sly, while fellow jazz artist Herbie Hancock even named a song after him.