On Sunday, funk legend George Clinton and the modern incarnation of Parliament Funkadelic hit City Parks Foundation‘s SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park for a pair of performances as part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival.
More than just a great band, Parliament Funkadelic remains a pillar of Black music. Laying the blueprint for funk in the 1970s by channeling R&B, soul, and rock and roll into space traveling acid trips, they would also provide the building blocks for the G-Funk sound that dominated the West Coast hip-hop scene in the early 1990s, through the samples that permeated its seminal work, Dr. Dre’s 1992 classic The Chronic.
The Parliament/Funkadelic band and show is the fruit of the collective of dozens of musicians assembled by Clinton, and is an amalgamation of two distinct acts: Funkadelic’s psychedelic Hendrix-descendant rock and roll, and Parliament’s funk free-for-all, filtering James Brown and Sly Stone through ’60s acid culture and science fiction.
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Check out a gallery of photos from the Sunday afternoon P-Funk show at SummerStage in Central Park below courtesy of photographer Ken Spielman.
For a list of upcoming performances as part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival, head here. For information on what’s coming up for the rest of the SummerStage season throughout the city, head here. For ticketing details, head here.
