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Dazz Band - Live And Funky

Record of the Day! Dazz Band – Keep It Live. Release in Motown in 1982. The Cleveland-based Dazz Band was one of the more popular funk groups of the early ’80s. Bobby Harris formed the group in the late ’70s, merging two Cleveland funk bands, Bell Telefunk and Mother Braintree. Harris and lead songwriter/guitarist Mike Calhoun’s concept for the group was “danceable jazz”; he shortened the description to “dazz” and called the group Kinsman Dazz. The Kinsman Dazz became the Dazz Band in 1980. They