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In 1971 she was asked to replace vocalist Paulette McWilliams in the funk group Ask Rufus

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Chaka Khan

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Khan reached the pinnacle of pop success with her cover of Prince’s “ ___”. which featured Stevie Wonder on harmonica and one of the first rap cameos on an R&B recording, performed by Melle Mel.

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“I Feel for You,”

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__has directly influenced contemporary singers such as Mary J. Blige, Fantasia Barrino, and Jennifer Hudson.

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Khan

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Chaka Khan and Rufus, Tell Me Something Good
• Clavinet
• Drums
• Bass
• Vocals
• Guitar with Talk Box.

Notes:____
Form: ___

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Talk box, Fade out ending.

A/B Form

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Tower of Power is from

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America

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Singer and Saxophonist of Tower of Power

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Emilio Castillo

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Tower of Power baritone sax player

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“Funky Doctor” Stephen Kupka

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Vocals and trumpet) - Tower of Power

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Greg Adams

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Tower of Power bassist

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Rocco Prestia (bass)

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Tower of Power is from

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Oakland, California

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Tower of Power Lead Vocalist

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Rufus Miller

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Sax player for Tower of Power

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Lenny Pickett

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Tower of Power Percussionist

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Brent Byers

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Tower of Power guitarist

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Willie Fulton

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Mayfield, Curtis, a soul and funk singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer from

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Chicago

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Creator of the sound of Chicago soul. who came to prominence performing on & writing hits by the Impressions between 1958 and 1970.

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Curtis Mayfield

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Mayfield left the Impressions in 1970 to pursue a different sound as a solo artist, less concerned with melody, his songs, such as Move on up, emphasize___ His most successful solo works, both commercially and aesthetically, came between 1970 and 1973.

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rhythm & texture with auxiliary percussion (ie. conga), wah-wah guitar & dramatic omnipresent strings

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Beginning with his soundtrack for the blaxploitation film Superfly (Curton, 1972; featuring two hits – the title song and Freddie’s dead),__ helped to pioneer music for black films.

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Curtis Mayfield

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American funk singer, songwriter and producer, leader of Funkadelic, Parliament, and the P-Funk All-Stars

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George Clinton

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the most important funk ensemble in the second half of the 1970s

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Parliament/Funkadelic

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Members of funkadelic

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  • Eddie Hazel (guitar)
  • Bernie Worrell (keyboards)
  • former JBs Bootsy Collins (bass guitar)
  • Maceo Parker (alto saxophone), and - - Fred Wesley (trombone).
22
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__’s music shows the strong influence of such funk performers as Sly Stone, George Clinton, and Rick James

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Prince’s

23
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Prince’s guitar was style derived from __.

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Jimmy Hendrix

24
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He acted and played in the film Round Midnight (1986) and won an Oscar

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Herbie Hancock

25
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In the 1970s Herbie Hancock was influenced by __ __ recordings

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Davis’s fusion

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___’s sextet was notable for its colourful doubling of instruments, tasteful blend of acoustic and electronic sounds and mastery of compound metres from 1970-73

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Herbie Hancock’s

27
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After 1973, Hancock began to use electric/ electronic instruments more, including the __piano, which he played through a variety of signal processors such as wah-wah and fuzz pedals. Later he turned to the Mellotron and the Hohner Clavinet, and, finally, to various synthesizers, sequencers & electronic percussion units.

A

Fender-Rhodes

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Producer___ transformed EW&F’s sound.

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Charles Stepney

29
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Producer___ transformed EW&F’s sound.

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Charles Stepney

30
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____ helped to redefine the sound of African American pop in this period and became known for its festive stage shows and jubilant horn section

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Earth, Wind & Fire

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Maurice White began playing drums in Memphis with his schoolmate __

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Booker T. Jones

32
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EW&F were brothers from

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Chicago, IL & Memphis TN

33
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“EW&F had a “______ mentality…in the manner of (jazz musicians) Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan.”

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College-educated Black

34
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first arena-sized black band (1970s)

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EW&F

35
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Group that appeared in the film Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band performing the Beatles’ “Got to Get You Into My Life” arranged in the style of another 70s era “horn band

A

EW&F

36
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Boots Collions was from

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Cincinnati, Ohio

37
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Previous “Pacemakers” funk bass player, songwriter & vocalist

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Bootsy Collins

38
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The Pacemakers later became

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The J.B’s

39
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After returning to Cincinnati in 1971, Collins formed the House Guests and then moved to Detroit to join George Clinton’s collective____

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Parliament/Funkadelic

40
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In 1976 Collins formed__, a sub-unit of Clinton’s P-Funk collective

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Bootsy’s Rubber Band

41
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Famed for his custom-made “____” Bootsy took guest turns with a variety of R&B and rock artists including Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads, Deee-Lite, the Soup Dragons, Bill Laswell, Fatboy Slim, and Victor Wooten

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star-shaped space bass

42
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In 2010____ founded an online education initiative, the Funk University, which presented lectures and audio and video files related to bass theory and the history of funk to registered students

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Bootsy Collins

43
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___ began singing gospel in their native
Cincinnati before moving to NY

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Isley Brothers

44
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This group followed the was influenced by James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone and, with Ernie Isley’s
Hendrix-influenced guitar, recorded a series of hit singles that dominated the rhythm and blues
charts until 1983, while hardly reaching a white audience

A

Isley Brothers

45
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This band introduced the electronic age into modern black music, by incorporating the most modern forms of technology while remaining identified with the James Brown groove and
the bro on the street.

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P-Funk

46
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Keyboardist___ was crucial to the
technologization of black popular music

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Bernie Worrell

47
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Bernie Worrell used the ___ which was capable not only of playing low notes, but of stacking a number of bass tones onto one key—creating the fullest bass sound ever played

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Moog synthesizer

48
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Ohio Players veteran key-boardist

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Junie Morrison

49
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The__ loops surpassed JB as the samples of choice

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p-funk

50
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__-based rap group Digital Underground went overboard with their allegiance to P-Funk,

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Oakland

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