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The Dazz Band is a former United States|American funk music band that was most popular in the early 1980s.Emerging from Cleveland, Ohio, the group's biggest hit songs include the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals|Grammy Award-winning "Let It Whip" (1982), "Joystick (song)|Joystick" (1984), and "Let It All Blow" (1984). The name of the band is a portmanteau of the description "danceable jazz".
History
The Dazz Band, formed in 1976, grew out of the Cleveland jazz fusion band Bell Telefunk, comprised of Bobby Harris, lead guitarist/songwriter Mike Calhoun, percussionist Kenny Pettus, drummer Isaac "Ike" Wiley, Jr., and his brother bassist Michael Wiley, and the band Mother Braintree. The group became known as Kinsman Dazz, named after the street and name of the lounge where they worked as the house band: Sonny Jones' Kinsman Grill Lounge. The group adopted its name before the song "Dazz" became an R&B hit for Atlanta|Atlanta's Brick (band)|Brick in 1976.
Kinsman Dazz was signed to 20th Century Records by Joe Lewis in 1978. The group went to Los Angeles to record for producer Marvin Gaye. Owing to illness, Gaye had to back out of the duties. Harris requested and got Philip Bailey, the vocalist of Earth, Wind & Fire, to produce the group's first album, ''Kinsman Dazz'... read all
Dazz Band Whip It Baby
