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Black Music Month originated in 1979. Jimmy Carter proclaimed the month of June as Black Music Month to celebrate the wonderful music, the  achievements, births, important timelines, events and to remember those we lost.

The Commodores, fresh off their Lifetime Achievement Award at last year’s SoulTracks Readers’ Choice Awards, just returned from Monaco, where they performed at the annual “Bal De La Rosa” at the request of the Royal Family Prince Albert and Princess Caroline of Monaco. Next month current group members Walter Orange, J.D. Nicholas and William King […]

jungle boogie (jungle –oft attrib to Hindi jangal + boogie – prob alter of bogle – goblin, object of fear) a 1974 hit by Kool & the Gang, frequently sampled by hip-hop artists, perhaps the funkiest piece of music ever recorded.