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Sex Machine

The Sex Machine is a 1970 live recording by James Brown featuring performances from Augusta, Georgia. This double album...

1970S Groove James Brown Classic Funk

9.2 Excellent

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The Payback

The Payback is a 1973 double album by James Brown released on Polydor Records. It’s notable for its intensely rhythmic,...

1970S Double Album James Brown Classic Funk

9.2 Excellent

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Head Hunters

Head Hunters is a seminal 1973 studio album by Herbie Hancock. This pioneering work established the genre of jazz-funk,...

Classic 1970S Pioneering Herbie Hancock

9.2 Excellent

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Thrust

Thrust is a 1974 studio album by Herbie Hancock and the follow-up to Head Hunters, continuing his exploration of jazz-fu...

Classic 1970S Groove Herbie Hancock

9.1 Excellent

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Live at the Sex Machine

Live at the Sex Machine is a 1971 album by Kool & the Gang, despite its title and presentation not representing a conven...

Live 1970S Groove Jazz Funk

8.8 Great

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Get on the Good Foot

Get on the Good Foot is a 1972 double album by James Brown, released by Polydor Records. Named for Brown's hit single an...

Dance 1970S James Brown Classic Funk

8.4 Great

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Tower of Power

Tower of Power is the 1973 self-titled third studio album by the Oakland, California funk and soul band Tower of Power....

Classic 1970S Soul Funk Tower Of Power

8.4 Great

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Everybody Loves the Sunshine

Everybody Loves the Sunshine is a 1976 album credited to Roy Ayers Ubiquity and released by Polydor Records. It blends j...

1970S Groove Jazz Funk Soul Funk

8.4 Great

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Expansions

Expansions is a 1975 album by keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes. It combines electric piano, synthes...

1970S Spiritual Groove Jazz Funk

8.4 Great

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Back to Oakland

Back to Oakland is a 1974 studio album by Tower of Power, named for the California city where the band developed its sou...

1970S Groove Soul Funk Tower Of Power

8.3 Great

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Man-Child

Man-Child is a 1975 album by pianist and keyboardist Herbie Hancock. It extends the electric jazz-funk direction of Head...

1970S Groove Herbie Hancock Jazz Funk

8.3 Great

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It Is What It Is

It Is What It Is is a 2020 studio album by bassist, singer, and songwriter Thundercat, whose legal name is Stephen Brune...

Modern 2020S Jazz Funk Bass Funk

8.3 Great

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It's a Man's Man's Man's World

It's a Man's Man's Man's World is a 1966 studio album by American singer James Brown, named after his dramatic soul ball...

1960S Soul James Brown Classic Funk

8.2 Great

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Drunk

Drunk is a 2017 studio album by American bassist, singer, and songwriter Thundercat. Presented as a long sequence of mos...

Modern 2010S Jazz Funk Bass Funk

8.2 Great

15

There It Is

There It Is is a 1972 studio album by American singer and bandleader James Brown, released by Polydor Records. It docume...

1970S Funk Groove James Brown

8.1 Great

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Hell

Hell is a 1974 double album by American singer and bandleader James Brown, released on Polydor Records. The record combi...

1970S Funk Double Album James Brown

8.1 Great

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The Gold Experience

The Gold Experience is a 1995 studio album by Prince, officially credited to the unpronounceable symbol he then used as...

Classic 1990S Funk Rock Prince

8.1 Great

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Bump City

Bump City is the second studio album by the Oakland, California band Tower of Power, released in 1972 on Warner Bros. Re...

1970S Groove Soul Funk Tower Of Power

8.1 Great

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Life on Planet Groove

Life on Planet Groove is a live album by American saxophonist Maceo Parker, released in 1992 and recorded in Germany. Pa...

Live 1990S Jazz Funk Horn Funk

8.1 Great

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Mo' Roots

Mo' Roots is a 1991 album by American saxophonist Maceo Parker, released by Verve Records after Roots Revisited. Parker,...

1990S Groove Jazz Funk Horn Funk

7.6 Good