Jazz, Funk & Soul Stories

King Curtis - Soul Superhero

King Curtis - Soul Superhero

In 1971, New York City was going through a Dickensian “worst of times” scenario that included the rising crime rate that turned the streets into a bleak landscape of muggers, purse snatchers, and addicts plotting junkie hijinks between narcotic nods....

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En Vogue - Crossover Queens

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LaBelle - Equal Rights

LaBelle - Equal Rights

As the 1960s faded away and the ’70s shattered the veneer of innocence, three equally talented artists—Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash—shed their Bluebelles name, swapped their floor-length dresses in favor of denim, and reinvented themselves, with the help...

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Funkadelic - America Eats Its Young

Funkadelic - America Eats Its Young

Funkadelic’s America Eats Its Young was a purposeful message to the youth of the United States. In 1972, that younger generation was facing conscription into a war in Vietnam that had become increasingly senseless and nihilistic. Turning to heroin and...

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Miles Davis - Black Satin

Miles Davis - Black Satin

Miles Davis was called one of “the best dressed men of the twentieth century” by both GQ and Esquire magazines. Looking sharp in his Brooks Brothers suits during his Birth of the Cool era, he quickly changed things up by...

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