Shut Your Mouth! "Shaft" is 40?

OhioFUNK friends and supporters already know that the website’s founder, Jack Marchbanks, co-hosts Jazz Sunday, a weekly three hour music program broadcast live on 90.5-FM WCBE Columbus. Remember: Jazz Sunday streams live weekly 3pm to 6pm ET at www.wcbe.org.

In the meantime, you can hear one of Jazz Sunday’s typically informative, music history-oriented interviews. Jack, with support from Jazz Sunday host K.C. Jones, interviewed (courtesy of a timely introduction by SIDney Howard) Detroit-born Patricia Lewis, the founding member of Hot, Buttered Soul, the great back-up group for the late R&B legend, Isaac Hayes. The occasion was the 40th anniversary of the ground-breaking movie soundtrack album, Shaft, reaching the top of the Billboard charts in Autumn 1971. Listen now.

Used by permission 90.5-FM WCBE Columbus ©2011

The 32nd Annual Detroit Jazz Festival

If it's the Labor Day Weekend, you know where Jack Marchbanks and his better half, Alice Flowers, most likely are: The Detroit Jazz Festival. For the fifth consecutive year, Jack covered this largest free jazz festival in the world for his hometown NPR affiliate, 90.5-FM WCBE Columbus. And, although a nasty thunderstorm forced the cancelation of the Saturday evening concerts on September 3rd, the 2011 edition of Detroit Jazz Festival, or "DJF" as it is affectionately called by Motor City jazz fans, was still a solid success. Read more...

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Jack's 2011 Detroit Jazz Festival Photo Gallery

The presence of pioneering funk/Latin/ Afro-beat band, Mandrill, the group that was playing “world music” before the term was coined, generated palpable excitement at the Detroit Jazz Festival (DJF) during Labor Day Weekend 2011.
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Rock Hall's 2011 Spring Benefit

The women indeed rocked at The 2011 edition of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum's annual "It's Only Rock and Roll" Spring Benefit fundraiser. Read more...

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