Pledging "there ain't no party like a Funk Brothers party," the former Motown studio band turned the lawn at Chateau Ste. Michelle into a giant dance floor. The veteran band that backed so many famous ...

Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit “Ball of Confusion” and Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” died ...

Some say that it's the singer, not the song. The reverse was the case at the Moore Theatre Friday night, when the greatest hit machine in the history of recorded music led a near-capacity crowd ...

Instead of emphasizing chord changes and melody, funk accentuated heavily syncopated beats and rhythmic and repetitive bass lines.