SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Before Kool & The Gang took the stage on Labor Day, Chevy Court's sound system played "24K Gold" by Bruno Mars. It felt appropriate. Shawn McQuiller led the crew for several ...

Legendary R&B band Kool & the Gang came back to Pacific Avenue and Maple Street today for the unveiling of Kool & the Gang way, to commemorate the corner where Ronald and Robert Bell lived when the ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to a patron of the party, musician George Brown of the band Kool & The Gang, about his new book, new record, and the "Celebration" of a long and funky career. When it comes ...

As the ’70s burned to a close, Kool & the Gang shifted the groove. The band had spent most of the decade playing nationalist-minded jazz and hard-edged funk, scoring big hits along the way such as ...

Kool & the Gang's George Brown in 2014. (Leon Bennett / Getty Images for BET) George Brown, a founding member of Kool & the Gang who played drums with the band and co-wrote such enduring standards as ...

NEW YORK — You can call the music of Kool & the Gang funky or R&B, soulful or disco, pop or dance. What you cannot call it is partisan. When Iowa’s delegation at this summer’s Democratic National ...

Ronald Bell, a co-founder of Kool & the Gang, died at the age of 86 on Sept. 9, representatives have confirmed. He passed at his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands; no cause of death being reported.