9:45 p.m.: Nate Harasim and Darren Rahn. Canadian-born producer/smooth jazz saxman Rahn has been charting on Billboard's jazz charts since 2008. His latest, "Speechless" peaked at #29 in April, and ...

Lester Troutman Sr. says a dream happened. “Some brothers got together from Hamilton, Ohio and started talking about the dream that they had, and they started chasing their dream,” the drummer and ...

It’s not often that one group of people can lay claim to influencing the rise of two separate genres of popular music. But that is exactly the case with Zapp, whose eponymous 1980 release was ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Columbus Commons was home to the second annual 614-Funk Fest tonight. The event highlights the funk music genre, including one group who performed who are native to Ohio ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Zapp Band, a funk group with a unique ...

Mark Ronson has been sued for copyright infringement over the similarity between "Uptown Funk" and the 1980 Zapp hit "More Bounce to the Ounce." By Gil Kaufman Mark Ronson is facing another lawsuit ...

Performers like Zapp and Morris Day will take the stage tomorrow so we can hear some of their classic hits. The production company, “Fame Productions,” started this show to give people a chance to ...

There’s a new Ohio Historic marker on Salem Avenue in Dayton—at the spot where a lot of funk music came to life inside Troutman Sound Labs. Troutman Sound Labs was built in the early 80s, when a ...

The two brothers who remain with the Zapp Band have survived turmoil that tore through both their family and the group. Lester Troutman Sr. and his brother Terry, long-nicknamed Zapp, have kept the ...

"Blurred Lines" 2.0? Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars may have thought they dodged a blurry licensing bullet by listing The Gap Band as writers on their 11-times platinum, literally billions-streamed hit ...

“Uptown Funk” is the subject of a new copyright infringement lawsuit. Mark Ronson has been accused of copying Zapp’s 1980 classic “More Bounce to the Ounce” without permission. The complaint was ...