"He said, ‘I think you need a lead singer,'" Bell tells Rolling Stone. Up until that point, Kool & the Gang had relied on ...

Imagine for a second you’d written a song as eternal as Kool & the Gang’s 1980 funk ... “He said, ‘Listen, I think you guys need a lead singer’.” He laughs at his initial reaction ...

WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with George Brown's widow Hanh Pham Brown and Curtis F. Williams about the release of Brown's Jazz in ...