4 funky songs with piano

Marcio** · December 6th, 2007, 05:37 PM

James Brown / Get Up (I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine)
Eddie Kendricks / Date With the Rain
Stevie Wonder / Boogie on Reggae Woman
Prince / Pop Life

**efunk_adelic** · December 18th, 2007, 02:55 AM

Bernard Wright - Just Chillin' Out
Tom Browne - Funkin' For Jamaica (N.Y.)

**RetroRuss** · December 18th, 2007, 03:33 AM

Charles Earland - Let The Music Play

**QUINNY** · December 21st, 2007, 03:39 AM

Bernard Wright was a brilliant P take of Tom's Funkin For Jamaica (and just as funkin' good). I get the impression Mr. Wright (or his cohorts) were rather peeved that Browne had scored such a BIG hit with his toon.

An obvious contender for funky piano toons would be:
Rodney Franklin - The Groove although for much more funkiness his much overlooked In The Centre would get my vote any day.

One of the funkiest grooves ever has to be Ramsey Lewis's Wade In The Water or from from roughly the same era, how about Eddie Harris's Listen Here, which although Sax dominated has a superb piano solo and vamping.

From the '80s I'd nominate my much loved Italo toon Can We Go?/Zwei from Electric Mind, surely one of the most nagging toons ever recorded and damned funky with it. One of the very, very few Italo toons I ever liked.

**qdearl** · December 21st, 2007, 11:12 AM

Westchester Lady - Bob James (though the piano doesn't really dominate the song, it's still my favorite)

...Along with Sign of the Times & Enchanted Forest

Almost forgot about the much sampled Nautilus

**Naso** · January 22nd, 2008, 03:15 AM

elton john - tiny dancer
rolling stones - loving cup

**hotmixbk** · January 25th, 2008, 04:05 PM

Definitely "The Groove" Rodney Franklin, "Sweet Lucy" Raul Sousa (George Duke On piano) "Beyond the Clouds" Quartz the funkiest piano ever, and the 12 inch of "Sexy Dancer" Prince solo is very funky....