Eventually he took his jazz-funk sound to the influential George Clinton band.
He later became known for his blend of soul, funk and jazz fusion.
The band have been winning enthusiastic reviews for their combination of bhangra with funk and jazz and will tour the UK in early September.
Funky Fish Club is a fun, friendly and unpretentious little club that plays soul, funk, jazz, Motown and old-school breaks, but draws the line at cheesy disco.
Byrd began moving toward a more commercial sound with the funk-jazz fusion album "Fancy Free" in 1969, taking a path followed by fellow trumpeters Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
Her style, which blends blues, soul, funk and jazz, has earned Copeland a Grammy nomination, while allowing her to open for the likes of The Rolling Stones, B.
On Sunday we begin with We The Undersigned, aka WtU. They are a Liverpool based collective that play a high energy mix of Reggae, Rock, Funk, Jazz and Hip Hop, topped with a four piece brass section.
But as if to confound all debate about what jazz means in 2012, funk was a dominating presence at the festival.
WSJ: Winter Jazzfest | The Broad Tent of Jazzfest | By Jim Fusilli
The free-wheeling Mostly Other People Do the Killing, a quartet that jumps from postbop to funk to free jazz often within the span of a few bars worked the same stage as Rudresh Mahanthappa, whose album "Samdhi" (ACT) incorporates straight-ahead jazz, electronica and Indian percussion and modes.
WSJ: Winter Jazzfest | The Broad Tent of Jazzfest | By Jim Fusilli
The group is the combined result of an urban tradition in American music that stretches back to historical precedents in jazz, rhythm and blues, funk and popular music since the 1970s.
But as the handclapping gave way to a percolating, polyrhythmic mix of funk, Afrobeat and electric jazz, the crowd migrated to the dance floor from a downstairs bar.
As a result, Detroit's musical DNA was built on country, jazz, soul, gospel, rockabilly, funk and more.
Svensson pushed the boundaries of jazz with his trio by incorporating elements of funk, classical, and electronica with his trio.
He is also known to play small club dates in New York as a part of The Robert Glasper Experiment, in which he further explores the intersection of hip-hop and jazz, with some neo-soul and funk thrown in.
Traces of blues and funk weave through echoes of Jamaican dub and flashes of jazz anarchy.
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