The Conversation

Funky Drummer: How a James Brown jam session gave us the ‘greatest drum break of them all’

James Brown released a seven-inch single called Funky Drummer in March, 1970 – a loosely arranged jam session showcasing the talent for improvisation of drummer Clyde Stubblefield, who was employed in ...
The Village Voice

J-Zone’s Wild Ride From Rapper to Funky Drummer

Jay Mumford was attending Mamaroneck High School in the early Nineties when he made a hip-hop demo tape that sampled the drums from “Midnight Theme,” a song by the Seventies funk band Manzel that’s ...
Mena FN

'Koncert for Kyiv' Organizer Drums of Navarone with The Good, the Bad, and the Funky to Perform Benefit Show April 27 to Aid Ukraine Humanitarian Efforts'

Ticket Proceeds to be Donated to UNICEF for Their Work Supporting Children Displaced by War in Ukraine MINNEAPOLIS, March 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- World-renowned Afro-Latin funk orchestra Drums of ...
Rolling Stone

George ‘Funky’ Brown, Whose Uplifting Drums Held Down Kool & the Gang, Dead at 74

George Brown, the co-founder, drummer, and songwriter for Kool & the Gang, died Thursday, Nov. 16, after a battle with cancer. He was 74. A rep for Kool & the Gang confirmed Brown’s death in a ...
Memphis Flyer

The Funky Drummer! Stubblefield and Starks at Memphis Drum Shop

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...