It’s been 33 years since “Let It Whip” climbed to No. 1 on the R&B charts. Yet, the fans still come out to hear the funky hit tune and everything else the Dazz Band plays. And that makes founder Bobby ...

The performance had just ended, and the Dazz Band was back in the dressing room. The sweat-soaked, post-gig exuberance seemed typical for the veteran funk musicians, but they all agreed that the show ...

Skip Martin certainly has connections to the Mahoning Valley. Before he joined the Dazz Band in the early 1980s, he played for a couple of years in the Youngstown-based funk band Mighty Generation.

But we have to leave out a part of his definition. "Well, the word funk, I have a different take on it from maybe what you've heard -- I don't know if you even want to print it," he said from his ...

Grammy winner Skip Martin of Kool & the Gang and the Dazz Band releases his debut jazz CD Miles High today. “Are You Ready," the debut single with Skip on trumpet and vocals, features Wayman Tisdale ...

The Dazz Band was a funk music band based in Cleveland, Ohio that enjoyed brief popularity in the United States in the early 1980s. The name of the band is a concatenation of "Danceable Jazz". The ...

MUSKEGON HEIGHTS — "Old-school" rhythm and blues music legends, the Dazz Band, The Bar-Kays, Con Funk Shun and Sir Charles Jones will highlight a May 23-25 Memorial Day weekend celebration being ...

KC & the Sunshine Band, Rose Royce, Dazz Band will play Tuscaloosa's Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater at 6:30 p.m. June 7. Tickets go on sale at noon Friday through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the venue's ...

Maybe the nuclear negotiators should try this tactic: “Music has more power than anything in the world,” Robert “Bobby” Harris said. “Music is more powerful than anybody.” That’s been a ...

Cleveland's travel playlist includes songs by Eric Carmen, the Dazz Band, Kid Cudi, Tracy Chapman, Q Money, the James Gang and John Legend, plus numerous artists that aren't from Ohio. It's described ...