Rodney Brown, drummer on 1967’s “Funky Broadway,” a Dyke & the Blazers classic and one of the first hit songs to use a ...

Sly Stone, the multitalented musician whose psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late '60s and early ...

Behind it all was Sly Stone, the visionary who died Monday at 82 after a long battle with the lung disease COPD. He wrote, ...

Sly Stone, the funk singer, songwriter ... Stone was a musical prodigy, playing the guitar, bass, and drums at an expert level before his teen years. In the mid-1960s, he was a DJ for the soul ...

Philadelphia’s Muscle Tough, the self-described “futuristic funk fusion trio” of Ross Bellenoit (guitar), Jonathan Colman ...

The 37th annual Elkhart Jazz Festival starts Thursday. More than 100 performers will take to stages across the downtown region for an audience anticipated to be around 20,0000 for the largest ...

Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful ... He was adept at keyboards, guitar, bass, and drums by age eleven, and went on to perform in several high school bands ...

Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name ... He learned to play guitar, keyboard, bass and the drums as a child. The Family Stone was the first major American rock ...

The music was a blowout of frantic horns, rapid-fire guitar and locomotive rhythms, a melting pot of jazz, psychedelic rock, doo-wop, soul and the early grooves of funk. Stone’s group began as a ...

Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the ...