Curtis Mayfield was short, and with his rabbity grin and small rectangular-wire-framed glasses hanging halfway down his nose, ...

DJ Funk/Facebook DJ Funk, the Chicago legend who coined the term "ghetto house," has died. The musician, whose real name was Charles Chambers, was 54. Funk's death was confirmed to PEOPLE by his ...

Cymande (pronounced sih-mahn-day; a creole word for dove) are one of the earliest British funk bands, formed more than 50 years ago. They’ve had a roller-coaster of a career. In 1972 ...

Roy Ayers, who died March 4 at 84 after a long illness, understood this perhaps better than any other vibraphonist. He had the chops to run rings around many of his peers, and he did just that as a ...

As a pioneer of the sound and vibe of the ’70s whose influence was impossibly large ... And that doesn’t begin to measure how Mayfield’s soul-funk imagination cast its shadow over such disparate ...