It was 1978, and nearly a decade into their recording career, Kool & the Gang - the once-dominant jazz and funk group whose ...

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It was 1978, and nearly a decade into their recording career, Kool & the Gang — the once-dominant jazz and funk ... late 1980s, says. “As long as those horn parts were right and the songs ...

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