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Finding the Funk

6.8 78 mins Documentary   Music   2014
Director(s): Nelson George

Finding the Funk is a road trip in search of the past, present and future of Funk music. Starting with Funk's roots in Jazz and the James Brown bands of the '60s we travel to the Bay Area to celebrate Sly & the Family Stone, then to Dayton the birthplace of so many of Funk's originators, then onto Detroit where from the ashes of Motown, P-Funk's Mothership arose, and then to LA where a new crop of musicians are creating their own Funk history. On our journey into Funk, we talk to legends Sly Stone, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Nona Hendryx, Maceo Parker, Bernie Worrell, and Steve Arrington and their descendants Mike D, D'Angelo, Sheila E, Shock G and Sade's Stuart Matthewman. Narrated by Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson of the Roots.

Casts of Finding the Funk

Questlove

as Self

James Brown

as Self

George Clinton

as Self

Bootsy Collins

as Self

Sly Stone

as Himself

Nile Rodgers

as Self

D'Angelo

as Himself

Bernie Worrell

as Self

Michael Diamond

as Himself

Sheila E.

as Herself

Arthur Baker

as Himself

James Mtume

as Himself

Shock G

as Himself

Vernon Reid

as Himself

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