Skip Martin certainly has connections to the Mahoning Valley. Before he joined the Dazz Band in the early 1980s, he played for a couple of years in the Youngstown-based funk band Mighty Generation.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - In a city of underappreciated talent, the Kinsman Dazz may be one of Cleveland's most underappreciated bands. Launched from the Kinsman area in the early 1980s, the funk group that ...

Latest release: Time Traveler (2001), a surprisingly era-appropriate collection of low-key jams that combine modern R&B flavor with Dazz's marquee throwback funk. Why you care: Though the Dazz Band ...

But we have to leave out a part of his definition. "Well, the word funk, I have a different take on it from maybe what you've heard -- I don't know if you even want to print it," he said from his ...

VAIL, Colorado – You can’t be a soul music fan or aficionado without having a little Dazz Band on your i-pod. Nor can you have a soul music festival without inviting them to perform. The Dazz Band has ...

The performance had just ended, and the Dazz Band was back in the dressing room. The sweat-soaked, post-gig exuberance seemed typical for the veteran funk musicians, but they all agreed that the show ...

Keith Harrison knows more than most about “riding high” and having to “let it whip.” The Grammy Award-winning artist tells “What Had Happened Was” podcast host Amelia Robinson about his life as a ...

The Dazz Band never expected one song's "three-hour tour" to span almost three decades. A year after the group released "Let it Whip" in 1982, the single garnered a Grammy Award for Best Performance ...

Cleveland's travel playlist includes songs by Eric Carmen, the Dazz Band, Kid Cudi, Tracy Chapman, Q Money, the James Gang and John Legend, plus numerous artists that aren't from Ohio. It's described ...