Sentence examples for typical funk from inspiring English sources

According to Kenny Wellington – trumpeter with Light of the World, Typical Funk Band and Beggar & Co – it was about making a statement of who they were: "We were the first generation of youths of colour from England, and we were happy to say that we loved the music but were from London.

Afterwards, they were played at the dances already mixed into montagens (mashups with the vocals overtop Miami Bass beats and spliced with typical funk samples).

"There's been a very typical post-crash funk hanging over investors, and they're just shaking it off," DeKaser said.

Unlike typical coffeehouse folkies, she embraced rhythm, adding funk beats and jazzy horns to a band that kept expanding until she dissolved it in 2002.

The group has a new instrumental album, "The Mix-Up" (Capitol), that reverse-engineers their typical sound, pulling back toward the 1970s funk, soul and dub reggae that constitute the roots of hip-hop.

The album opens with an introduction and then includes songs in the likes of typical 70s-era music such as soul, funk, jazz, but also hip-hop.

The distinctive Liberty Ellman's guitar is sonorous and elegant on the moody Lying Eyes, before José Davila's trombone and the leader's airy flute lines strike a typical Threadgill contrast over a scurrying avant-funk pulse.

In more recent years the band has incorporated varied guitar styles from outside Haiti, the most important being chicken-scratch funk and the light and airy patterns typical of the Francophone Afro-pop heard on Haitian radio stations.

The audience wasn't simply saying thanks for the night's show, which had been a typical Coleman mix of impassioned sax playing, bass-heavy free funk, unceremoniously morphed classical quotes and African drum choir polyrhythms.

Funk offered a suggestion that was outside his typical purview of ensuring the former Massachusetts governor's physical safety.

Mr. Montbleau, 34, is a typical journeyman musician, leading his group, the Ryan Montbleau Band, in feel-good retro funk for about 200 club dates a year.