Bass Week: The word ‘funk’ or ‘funky’ can be applied to almost anything, from butt-shaking basslines to scatter cushions. We all instinctively know what’s implied, but in a bass playing sense, what ...

Funk music emerged in the 1960s as a vibrant fusion of soul, jazz, and R&B, marked by its syncopated basslines, groovy ...

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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 ...

Parliament’s “Mothership Connection,” released 50 years ago this month, was a rococo musical milestone that bridged funk’s ...

Star Seattleites Quincy Jones, Sir Mix-A-Lot and Ben Gibbard appear as talking head historians and music experts, with Jones explaining the momentum preceding Seattle’s soul/funk scene was Jackson ...

The vision of late 1960s and early '70s Seattle R&B as laid out by Light in the Attic's 2005 comp Wheedle's Groove permeated everything in reach of your speakers, and this collection proves that ...

One of my favourite funk bands to come out of the '70s was a collection of musicians directed by George Clinton. Originally known as Parliament (although often seeming to exist simultaneously under ...