• It's Got to Be Funky is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, his first release on the Columbia label since Silver's Blue (1956), featuring performances...
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    "Horace Silver – It's Got to Be Funky". AllMusic. Retrieved January 4, 2016. Bogle, Dick (September 8, 1993). "Dick's Picks: It's Got to Be Funky". The Skanner...
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  • "Funky President (People It's Bad)" is a funk song by James Brown. Released as a single in 1974, it charted No. 4 R&B. It also appeared on the album Reality...
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  • "Funky Drummer" is a song by James Brown recorded in 1969 and released as a single in 1970. Its drum break, improvised by Clyde Stubblefield, is one of...
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    has been a silver Selmer Mark VI with a modified bent neck. He is said to now be playing a Yamaha YSS-82ZR, and uses a Selmer D mouthpiece and Vandoren...
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  • The United States Of Mind / Phase 1 1988: Music to Ease Your Disease (Silveto) 1993: It's Got to Be Funky (Columbia) 1996: Total Response (Blue Note) Adler...
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    Allen, as a jazz soloist on his own album CHEZ SEZ, Horace Silver's It's Got to Be Funky (1993), and on Bob Florence's Grammy-winning album Serendipity 18...
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    "Funky Cold Medina" Tone Lōc's "Funky Cold Medina" from Lōc-ed After Dark An editor has nominated the above file for discussion of its purpose and/or potential...
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  • Observer critic Peter Robinson called Funky Dory "an excellent album. It's stylish, decadent and temperamental, and it's teeming with melodrama: like a Geri...
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    1991]) The Gemini Twins (Gemini Records, 1992) With Horace Silver It's Got to Be Funky (Columbia, 1993) Pencil Packin' Papa (Columbia, 1994) With Clark...
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  • with Mundy and Tadd Dameron, but was not known to be a musician or composer. "Solar" was attributed to Davis and copyrighted in his name in 1963. Evidence...
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    2016. "It's a New Day". Billboard. Retrieved September 1, 2016. "Super Bad". Billboard. 1971-02-13. p. 30. Retrieved September 1, 2016. "Sho Is Funky Down...
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  • "Too Funky" is a song written and performed by English singer and songwriter George Michael and released by Columbia Records in the United States and...
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  • Silver's recordings as a leader were for the Blue Note label. In addition to Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers listed above, Silver recorded two live...
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  • The Funky Headhunter is the fifth studio album by American rapper Hammer, released on March 1, 1994, via Giant Records and Reprise Records. The album...
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  • in 1983–84, 1993 (It's Got to Be Funky) and 1995–96. He did a tour of Japan and Europe with Sarah Vaughan in 1985. He continued to play as a sideman in...
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  • Music to Ease Your Disease (1988) Rockin' with Rachmaninoff (1991) It's Got to Be Funky (1993) Pencil Packin' Papa (1994) The Hardbop Grandpop (1996) A Prescription...
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  • a trip that Silver had made to Brazil. The cover artwork features a photograph of Silver's father, John Tavares Silver, to whom the title composition was...
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    to one source, New Orleans-born drummer Earl Palmer "was the first to use the word 'funky' to explain to other musicians that their music should be made...
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  • is pure Silver, hard-driving and melodic hard bop with a strong dose of funky soul". All compositions by Horace Silver except where noted "Liberated Brother"...
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    his top ten tracks, saying "It's always been one of my favorite songs. It's got an amazing bassline that sounds great on a good system and people love...
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    R&B afternoon radio show Uncle Funky Larry Jones & Ali Siddiq on KMJQ (Majic 102.1) in Greater Houston from January 2021 to January 2024. Siddiq was born...
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  • feel no distress, I'm at my best — let's dance, let's shout, gettin' funky what it's all about!" proving the power of the dance can overtake any shyness...
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  • Drew, among others. A1. "Safari" (Silver) A2. "Ecaroh" (Silver) A3. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills) A4. "Thou Swell" (Lorenz...
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    1976's "Everybody Wanna Get Funky One More Time", features a rare hornless arrangement. As funk music gave way in popularity to disco in the 1970s, the group's...
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  • Silver's best-known composition. According to Silver, the song was "in part inspired by our Brazilian trip. We got the Brazilian rhythm for this tune from...
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  • American tour. "(Everything I Do) Got to Be Funky", which was a minor, regional radio hit, appears on the soundtrack to Major League II. Vaughn started...
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  • 1966 Allmusic Review Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1299. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0. Horace...
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  • described it as a "rhythmic, funky ode about a real lucky guy who wants nothing more than to be near his gal." In 2000, "I Got You (I Feel Good)" reached...
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  • Billboard Jan 15, 1966 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1299. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0. Swenson...
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