A while back, drummer Lou Hill was driving through a desolate stretch of west Texas on his way to join his Water Seed bandmates for a show on the West Coast when a thought struck him. “I was just ...
TheGrio examines how Herbie Hancock’s “Head Hunters” album signaled a funky turn in so-called jazz music and stood out from the big name fusion bands of the time. In 1969, Miles Davis released his ...
The cover of the newly reissued 1977 LP Yoyi, originally released by Jorge Soler León under the name Grupo los Yoyi Credit: Courtesy of Future Rootz Medina grew up in Cuba, but his voracious appetite ...
Singer-songwriter-producer Betty Davis, an icon of future-funk, fashion and bold sexuality in the 1970s, died Wednesday at age 77 in her longtime home of Homestead, Pennsylvania. Davis, who was once ...