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...best tracks on the album—“Get Him Back” and “Not About Love”—with the Roots’ drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson. This collaboration adds a unique funk which brings new depth to Apple’s heavy piano rifts...
...titled Do You Want More?!!!??!, and the band's answer to that question is still yes, with just as many exclamation points (and maybe not so many question marks). But despite a career that has lasted more than a decade, the band is looking to shake things up. Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, the Roots' drummer, says the group is considering calling its next album The Tipping Point, a reference to the Malcolm Gladwell book about the momentum of ideas, and to the fact that the band members are still seeking to take their career to that next level. "Our original fans...
...group--Tariq (Black Thought) Trotter, drummer Ahmir (?uestlove) Thompson, keyboardist Kamal Gray, bassist Leonard (Hub) Hubbard, vocal percussionists Kyle (Scratch) Jones and Rozell (Rahzel) Brown [not pictured] and Malik (Malik B.) Abdul-Bassit--is time tested. In various incarnations, they have been together since 1987. When you see ?uestlove with his big Afro behind the drum kit, you know you're going to get a good show...
...buzz on the Japanese soul-master is growing. According to The Roots drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" (pronounced "Questlove") Thompson, Kubota's authenticity comes across, even if he does not mesh with conventional ideas of what a soul singer should look like. "I'm one of those idealists who thinks soul music comes from the inside. I don't think you have to be black or raised on collard greens, fried chicken and cornbread to be part of the soul experience." He says that when the group first heard of Kubota, they thought: "Oh God?a Japanese soul singer?" They stopped laughing...
Lewis says she met Roots band members Ahmir Thompson and Black...