Tribute To The Funk — Live in Paris, 2003

This live concert, filmed in Paris in 2003, pays tribute to the golden age of funk, the movement born in the late 1960s that placed the groove, the syncopated bass and the rhythm section at the heart of African-American popular music. On stage, a full band — drums, bass, rhythm guitars, keyboards, horns and backing vocals — revisits the vocabulary inherited from James Brown, Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic and Earth, Wind & Fire. The capture conveys the collective energy specific to funk, where the interplay between musicians and the holding of the tempo outweigh solitary virtuosity. Sharp horn riffs, slap bass, muted-chord guitars and rhythmic breaks follow one another to sustain a danceable pulse throughout the set. This full concert offers a lively panorama of a founding genre, the matrix of disco, hip-hop and much of today’s music. To be discovered as a filmed live concert to feel the unifying power of funk and the infectious pleasure of a band at the service of the groove.