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Joseph "Amp" Fiddler, who played keyboard in Parliament-Funkadelic and mentored a young J Dilla, died Sunday of cancer at 65. Fiddler's family announced his death in an Instagram post Monday ...
More than 200 firefighters responded to the massive blaze on West 145th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue just after 2:40 p.m. that left five civilians and four firefighters injured ...
Messina first played in jazz clubs in Detroit starting in the late 1940s. [2] By his mid-twenties, he was playing in the ABC Television studio band, accompanying such guests as Sonny Stitt, [5] Charlie Parker, [2] Stan Getz, [5] Jack Teagarden, Lee Konitz, [5] Jimmy Giuffre, Pepper Adams, [6] Donald Byrd, [5] Frank Rosolino, and Dizzy Gillespie. [2]
The band continued to play live, though most of the original members died through the years; Durham died in 1973, Webb died in 1982, Draffen died in 2002, Love died in 2014, [6] and McCormick followed in 2022.
Singer, songwriter, producer and style icon Betty Davis, whose unfiltered, in-your-face 1970s funk songs including “He Was a Big Freak,” "Game Is My Middle Name" and “Nasty Gal” conveyed a ...
Clarence Eugene "Fuzzy" Haskins (June 8, 1941 – March 16, 2023) was an American singer. He performed with 1950s and 1960s doo-wop group, The Parliaments, and was a founding member of the groundbreaking and influential 1970s funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, also known as Parliament-Funkadelic.
Edward Earl Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic. [1] [2] Hazel was a posthumous inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. [3]
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a dissenting opinion that the ruling constitutes a "five-alarm fire that threatens to consume democratic self-governance."