Finding the Funk

Discovering the Funk-Discovering the Funk:2014:Discovering the Funk is a highway journey seeking the previous, current and way forward for Funk music. Beginning with Funk’s roots in Jazz and the James Brown bands of the ’60s we journey to the Bay Space to rejoice Sly & the Household Stone, then to Dayton the birthplace of so lots of Funk’s originators, then onto Detroit the place from the ashes of Motown, P-Funk’s Mothership arose, after which to LA the place a brand new crop of musicians are creating their very own Funk historical past. On our journey into Funk, we discuss to legends Sly Stone, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Nona Hendryx, Maceo Parker, Bernie Worrell, and Steve Arrington and their descendants Mike D, D’Angelo, Sheila E, Shock G and Sade’s Stuart Matthewman. Narrated by Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson of the Roots.