Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James "JT" Taylor in May 2024 in New York - Credit: Photograph by Griffin Lotz Everyone in the band knew there was a problem, even ...

George “Funky” Brown, one of Kool & the Gang’s founding members, died on November 18 at the age of 74. In one of his last interviews, he and co-founder Robert “Kool” Bell spoke about the band’s legacy ...

The trailblazer from Jersey City, whose music melds jazz, funk, soul, R&B, disco and pop, has been at it for 60 years now. Kool & the Gang took flight just a few years after Bell and his younger ...

When Kool & the Gang perform, it’s always a celebration, so as the song says, “Celebrate good times, come on.” The band will mark its 60th anniversary next year, and co-founder, bassist and bandleader ...

EXCLUSIVE: AllHipHop had a chance to not only meet Kool & the Gang’s namesake, Robert “Kool” Bell, and fellow member J.T. Taylor but also got to ask them about sampling. Par for the course, the annual ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to a patron of the party, musician George Brown of the band Kool & The Gang, about his new book, new record, and the "Celebration" of a long and funky career. When it comes ...

“In any ballgame, three strikes, you are considered to be out,” Dionne Warwick told the audience at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. “Well, this is the third time that I have been told that I was ...

Mr. Brown kept time for a group that combined funk, disco, R&B and jazz to create some of the most memorable pop songs of the 1970s. By Sopan Deb George Brown, who as the drummer of the group Kool & ...

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 ...

E veryone in the band knew there was a problem, even if they didn’t know exactly how to fix it. It was 1978, and nearly a decade into their recording career, Kool & the Gang — the once-dominant jazz ...