His Majesty King Funk is a jazz album recorded in 1965 by Grant Green. It features Green with tenor saxophonist Harold Vick, organist Larry Young, drummer...
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and funk music, Zawinul's playing with Cannonball Adderley, and the work of English composer Paul Buckmaster. In August 1969, Davis gathered his band...
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According to jazz scholar Christopher Meeder, the Lifetime eschewed the funk influence of Miles Davis' early fusion music with a mixture of heavy rock...
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Franklin (1962). Grant Green recorded an instrumental version for his album His Majesty King Funk in 1965. Benzion Witler recorded a cover of the song that includes...
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1964 Am I Blue ― ― ― 1965 Idle Moments ― ― ― Talkin' About! ― ― ― His Majesty King Funk ― ― ― Verve Reissued on CD in 1995 (Verve/Polygram 527474). 1966...
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rock and funk". Alternative Press called the album "essential....colorful and exotic" and wrote that it represents "the high water mark of his experiments...
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"Organist Larry Young, who really found his own sound back in 1965 with the classic Unity album, is deep in the funk on this later Blue Note album... there...
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the two had started playing and recording together in 1972. According to his biographer Marc Shapiro, Santana had much to learn from McLaughlin: "He would...
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1961) Blues for Lou (Blue Note, 1963) Am I Blue (Blue Note, 1963) His Majesty King Funk (Verve, 1965) Iron City (Cobblestone, 1967) With Johnny Hodges Wings...
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Lifetime (prior to forming Mahavishnu Orchestra). McLaughlin was joined by his Lifetime bandmate, organist Larry Young, bass guitarist Billy Rich and former...
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