Bootsy Collins News

The lights dim in the 437-seat Jarson-Kaplan Theater at the Aronoff Center for the Arts on a recent Thursday evening, casting the murmuring members of the audience into shadow.

If you made your funk the P-Funk, if you wanted to get funked up, if you had an atomic dog or were a freak of the week, then you are familiar with the next a oeUnSunga profilee.

Maceo Parker Debuts at Jazz at Lincoln Center November 13 & 14 The Allen Room Maceo Parker, perhaps best known as the second-in-command to the legendary James Brown, helped define funk from its origins.

Mobile native Fred Wesley Jr. worked with Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown, and leading funk musicians of the 70s such as Bootsy Collins.

Between the King Records ties to James Brown and the thumping funk foundation of Bootsy Collins, Cincinnati has a legitimate claim as one of the cities that helped form the foundation of the vaunted West Coast G-Funk hip-hop sound of the early 1990s.

Bootsy Collins, along with is brother, began working as a session musician at King Records when he was 15.

Who's on Bootsy's list to see at MidPoint? We'll tell you. We asked music experts, musicians and fans for their top picks.

Click the audio player to listen to the story: Expanded online version: Ita s Friday night at Absinthe Lounge .

George Clinton was the night's honoree, and Lil Wayne and Kanye West were among the big winners, but Bootsy Collins undoubtedly stole the show at the 2009 BMI Urban Music Awards on Thursday night.

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Barbara Howard Reece, a Monfort Heights singer, performer and businesswoman, will be honored with an exhibit at Bootsy Collins' new restaurant, and in tributes next week during Macy's Music Festival and the Gospel Music Workshop of America.

Attention funkateers, freak-a-zoids, and motor-booty-aficionados. Tonight at 330 Ritch's Pacific Standard Time, DJ Sake One dons his Mr.

This is either the greatest thing ever, or a sign that Twitter is just about over: Bootsy Collins has signed up, as @Bootsy_Collins. Not only is Bootsy the nastiest funk bass player around , the photo above shows he's a natty dresser, too.

Reggae artist Winston Rodney, a.k.a. Burning Spear, won a Grammy for his album "Jah Is Real,'' the first produced on his own record label.

One of the best-known funk musicians, Cincinnati's own Bootsy Collins, has his own thoughts about Michael Jackson and his death Thursday.

Artist-Producer Quazedelic Brings Funk and Hip-Hop to New Heights with His Solo Album, The Arrival 2012 An artist that is new to some and well known to others, Quazedelic has brought true elements of Funk and Hip-Hop to a new level with his solo album entitled, The Arrival 2012 .

Finally, a slice of Cincinnati music history gets enshrined. While there have been temporary exhibits in recent years on our music lore at the public library and the Contemporary Arts Center, there has never been a permanent historical display.

Freekbass: Bootsy, is that you? Whoa, sorry, we were just having a serious flashback to the days of Bootsy Collins and Parliament Funkadelic.