Kool & the Gang

Kool and the Gang are without peers in the jazz-tinged funk genre. Less self-conscious than
the Blackbyrds, more versatile than the rest of the competition, the Gang includes a
first-class saxophonist and an original arranger/composer in Ronald Bell. His "Street Corner
Symphony" fuses energy sax a la Coltrane and Ayler and a taste of Junior Walker with a
rhythm track that means business. It fades on Coltrane's rephrasing of "My Favori... More >