While the set-up of drums, guitar, bass, keys and singer ... intricate strumming patterns, which gelled with the other rhythmic elements to create funk’s danceable nature. One of the genre ...

"Paul Jackson was an unusual funk bass player ... "It took me a while, but I figured out a whole different pattern underneath Paul's bass," Hancock wrote. "And that's what we ended up recording.

Pioneered by artists like James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, and George Clinton, funk stripped music down to its rhythmic ...

It really is a dream come true “Building a signature bass with Sterling by Music Man is the culmination of the original dream that Jack Stratton and I had years ago,” he says. “Namely, to build a funk ...