Robert "Kool" Bell, the band's bassist and co-founder, remembers music impresario Dick Griffey ... Their 1969 debut LP fused ...

EXCLUSIVE: AllHipHop had a chance to not only meet Kool & the Gang's namesake, Robert "Kool" Bell, and fellow member J.T.

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In addition, he has appeared at the Montreux, Playboy, and Kool Jazz festivals ... Forty years ago, pianist Claude Bolling shook up the jazz and classical music worlds a bit with his Suite for Flute ...

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“Our music is for everybody,” said Robert “Kool” Bell, bass guitarist and ... who explored Brazilian rhythms, country, cool jazz, romantic ballads and pure dance — proof that members ...

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Kool & The Gang, and Michael Jackson. The ’70s were a great decade for country music — give me all those wonderful records by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson ...

Robert “Kool” Bell, the band’s bassist and co-founder, remembers music impresario Dick Griffey ... Their 1969 debut LP fused jazz, soul, and funk into an unexpected hit, and by the mid ...