Friday Flashback: Kool & The Gang

We continue our segment with another tune about the season at hand. Kool & The Gang, previously named the Jazziacs, have been together for nearly 50 years, releasing 23 studio albums, where several of them have garnered gold or platinum status. Their seventh studio album Light of Worlds, considered by them as their ninth, counting two compilation releases, chose to have nine tracks on the LP to represent the nine planets in our solar system. The highlight of the album is "Summer Madness", a smooth, melodic song that incorporates jazz, rock and funk.

Friday Flashback: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

It's the first day of summer, here stateside, so we're going to kick it off by taking you back to 1991, the year that DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince dropped their platinum selling single "Summertime", which was produced by a Chicago production duo consisting of Hula and K. Fingers. Jeff and Will were the first ever Hip-Hop group to win the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance in 1989, and were also the first to win in 1991 in a new category for Hip-Hop/Rap, the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for the "Summertime" single, taken from their Homebase LP.