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Topic: funk music

Earth, Wind & Fire. (Photograph by Jeffrey Mayer/HBO)

Earth, Wind & Fire's music is universal

Melanie McFarland
James Brown, pictured in 1971 (Getty Images)

Tracking down the Godfather of Soul

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Ornette Coleman (AP/Harry Cabluck)

Remembering Ornette Coleman

Scott Timberg
(Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Prachi Gupta