[Malice]

How is it that funk has not made it to this list yet???

Let me try again...

Mickey and the Soul Generation
Ebony Rhythm Band
Eddie Bo
The Gators
The Soul Tornadoes
Vern Blair Debate
Poets of Rhythm
Calypso King and the Soul Investigators
Carleen and the Groovers
African Music Machine
Jimmy McGriff...

I will think of more later...in the meantime, get some funk on that list!