• 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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  • "Funky Drummer" is a single released by James Brown in 1970. Its drum break, improvised by Clyde Stubblefield, is one of the most frequently sampled music...
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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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    "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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  • Milt Jackson's nickname.) The other tracks recorded during this session may be found on Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (PRLP 7150), and all of them...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • with Mundy and Tadd Dameron, and 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Funky Winkerbean was an American comic strip by Tom Batiuk. Distributed by North America Syndicate, a division of King Features Syndicate, it appeared...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • compositions "Four" and "Tune Up" were always credited to Davis, although both were claimed by Eddie Vinson to be his compositions. Vinson was a known blues singer...
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  • career. Three of the four tunes were Sonny Rollins originals, and would go on to become regular parts of both Davis' and Rollins' live sets. In his autobiography...
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  • goes on to describe the goal of this recording: to return to "the fire and improvisation of bebop", but combined with a more forward looking funky kind of...
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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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  • Greedy Man" - 7:08 "Make It Funky, Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4" - 12:45 "King Heroin" - 3:55 "I Got Ants in My Pants (and I Want to Dance)" - 7:26 "There It Is"...
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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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  • Miles Davis, released in 1954 by Prestige Records. The album title is not to be confused with either of Davis' later Great Quintets. The three tracks on...
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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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  • composed by Horace Silver in 1954. It is one of many songs written in tribute to jazz patroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. The song was first recorded by...
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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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  • 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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