TRUTH IN RHYTHM Show Directory, Alpha by Featured Guest

TRUTH IN RHYTHM Video Episodes Directory, Alpha by Guest (as of 6/7/23)

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Aaron Mills (Cameo, OutKast) – TIR 285

A Taste of Honey

Adam Smirnoff (Lettuce) – TIR 144

ADC Band

Al Hudson and Dave Roberson (One Way) – TIR 61

Alan Evans (Soulive) – TIR 177

Alan Leeds (James Brown, Prince), Parts 1-2 – TIR 126

Alan Leeds (James Brown, Prince), Parts 3-4 – TIR 127

Alice Cooper

Alvin Taylor (Billy Preston, George Harrison) – TIR 229

Andre Fischer (Rufus, Natalie Cole), Parts 1-2 – TIR 217

Andre Fischer (Rufus, Natalie Cole), Parts 3-4 – TIR 218

Andre Foxxe (P-Funk) – TIR 152

Archie Ivy (George Clinton, P-Funk), Parts 1-2 – TIR 93

Archie Ivy (George Clinton, P-Funk), Parts 3-4 – TIR 94

Arnell Carmichael (Raydio) – TIR 33

Arthur B. Brown (Kiddo) – TIR 180

Arthur “Hakim” Stokes (Platypus) – TIR 284

Atlantic Starr

Aurra

Average White Band

Bar-Kays

Barry Finnerty (The Crusaders) – TIR 105

Barry Johnson (Lenny White, Don Blackman, Cameo) – TIR 199

Bart “Dodge” Verhoeven (Seven Eleven) – TIR 185

Ben “Cozmo D” Cenac (Newcleus) – TIR 260

Benzel Cowan (P-Funk) – TIR 239

Bernadette Cooper (Klymaxx) – TIR 102

Bernard Fowler (Herbie Hancock, Rolling Stones) – TIR 179

Bernie Worrell

Betty Davis

Beyonce

Big Ol’ Nasty Getdown

“Big” Tony Fisher (Trouble Funk) – TIR 140

Bill Curtis (Fatback Band) – TIR 183

Bill Laswell

Bill Risbrook, Rick Thompson (B.T. Express) – TIR 262

Bill Summers (Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters/Summers Heat) – TIR 47

Billy Beck (Ohio Players) – TIR 148

Billy Nunn (Rick James, Splendor, Bobby Nunn) – TIR 275

Billy Preston

Black Ivory

Blackbyrds

Bloodstone

Bob James

Bobby Nunn

Bohannon

Bootsy Collins

Bow-Legged Lou (Full Force) – TIR 88

Brand New Heavies

Brass Construction

Breakwater

Brecker Brothers

Brian & Eddie Holland (Motown Legends) – TIR 216

Brian Jackson (Gil Scott-Heron’s Midnight Band) – TIR 18

Brick

Brothers Johnson

BrownMark (Prince) – TIR 171

Bruce Talamon (Funk/Soul Photographer) – TIR 106

B.T. Express

Byron Miller (George Duke, Luther Vandross) – TIR 174

Cameo

Candy Dulfer (Prince) – TIR 263

Carl Butch Small (P-Funk, Soul Sessions, Death Row Records) – TIR 206

Carl McIntosh (Loose Ends) – TIR 118

Carle Vickers and John McGhee (L.T.D.) – TIR 65

Chaka Khan

Change

Charles Glenn (Ozone) – TIR 113

Charles McCormick & Harry Williams (Bloodstone) – TIR 176

Charles Wright (Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band) – TIR 209

Cheryl Cooley (Klymaxx) – TIR 2

Chocolate Milk

Chops Horns

Chris Jasper (Isley Brothers) – TIR 1

Clarence “Chet” Willis (Ohio Players, Shadow) – TIR 186

Club Nouveau

Crown Heights Affair

Commodores

Con Funk Shun

Cornelius “Corney” Mims (Funk-R&B Sessions Star) – TIR 243

Counts

Crowd Pleasers

Crusaders

Curt Jones (Slave/Aurra/Deja) – TIR 43

Curtis Harmon (Pieces of a Dream) – TIR 139

D-Train

Danny Bedrosian (P-Funk/George Clinton) – TIR 17

Darryl Dixon 1 (P-Funk, Sugarhill Records) – TIR 108

Darryl Dixon 2 (P-Funk, Sugarhill Records) – TIR 125

Darryl Gibbs (Crown Heights Affair, Strikers) – TIR 204

Dave Darlington (Grammy-Winning Engineer) – TIR 107

Dave Watts (The Motet) – TIR 289

David Frank & Mic Murphy (The System) – TIR 72

David Libert (George Clinton, Bootsy, Alice Cooper) – TIR 240

David Mackey (T-Connection) – TIR 19

David Sanborn

David Watson (Chops Horns) – TIR 125

David Webb (Funk Hall of Fame) – TIR 119

David Z (Prince & Associated Artists) – TIR 221

Dazz Band

Defunkt

Dennis Chambers (P-Funk, Jazz) – TIR 122

Dennis Coffey (The Funk Brothers) – TIR 133

Deep Banana Blackout

Dexter Wansel (Keyboardist & Producer) – TIR 76

DJ Prince Hakim (Son of Robert “Kool” Bell) – TIR 74

Don Blackman

Don “Tiger” Martin (James Brown, Bootsy, Spinners) – TIR 151

Donald Payne (Junie, Crowd Pleasers, Quazar) – TIR 280

Doug Wimbish (Living Colour) – TIR 182

Dr. Dre

Duane Tudahl (Prince Historian) – TIR 205

Dumpstaphunk

Dunning Sisters & Solomon Roberts (SKYY) – TIR 44

Dynasty

Earl Young (Drummer, The Trammps) – TIR 173

Earth, Wind & Fire

Eddie Martinez (Run-DMC, Guitar Sessions Star) – TIR 227

Eddie Mininfield (Sheila E, Prince) – TIR 162

Emilio Castillo (Tower of Power) – TIR 96

Emanuel Johnson (Enchantment) – TIR 175

Emotions

Emry Thomas (Johnny “Guitar” Watson) – TIR 71

Enchantment

Eric Clapton

Eric Gales (Guitar Master) – TIR 197

Erique Dial (P-Funk/Gil Scott Heron/Vaughan Mason) – TIR  40

Ernie Isley (Isley Brothers) – TIR 55

Erykah Badu

Evelyn “Champagne” King – TIR 160

Family

Family Stand

Fantastic Negrito

Fatback Band

Faze-O

Felton Pilate (Con Funk Shun) – TIR 53

Fishbone

Five Special

Floyd Miller (Slave) – TIR 69

Fourplay

Frank Richard (Chocolate Milk) – TIR 57

Frankie “Kash” Waddy (Bootsy’s Rubber Band) – TIR 28

Fred Alexander (Lakeside) – TIR 59

Fred Jenkins (Gap Band, Rick James) – TIR 223

Fred Mills (Betty Davis and Funkhouse) – TIR 155

Fred Wesley (James Brown/George Clinton) – TIR 27

Freekbass (Bootsy Protégé) – TIR 3

Friends of Distinction

Full Force

Funk Brothers

Gabe Gonzalez (P-Funk) – TIR 141

Galactic

Gap Band

Garrett Shider (P-Funk/George Clinton) – TIR 22

Gary and Greg Grainger (Pockets) – TIR 80

Gary Hudgins (P-Funk) – TIR 279

Gary Platt (Funk Sound Engineer) – TIR 261

Gayle Chapman (Prince) – TIR 79

General Caine

George Duke

George Harrison

George Massenburg, Engineering Icon (Earth, Wind & Fire) – TIR 214

George Porter Jr. (The Meters) – TIR 26

Gerald Albright – TIR 277

Gerry Thomas 1 (Jimmy Castor Bunch) – TIR 24

Gerry Thomas 2 (Fatback Band) – TIR 25

Gil Scott-Heron

Glenn Murdock (Mother’s Finest) – TIR 37

Graham Central Station

Greg Boyer 1 (George Clinton, Prince, Maceo Parker) – TIR 10

Greg Boyer 2 (George Clinton, Prince, Maceo Parker) – TIR 12

Greg Errico (Sly and the Family Stone) – TIR 50

Greg Phillips (Starpoint) – TIR 281

Greg Scott and Steve Green (Breakwater) – TIR 66

Greg Thomas (P-Funk) – TIR 137

Gregory Williams (Switch) – TIR 62

Grover Washington Jr.

GSHARP (Prince, Mazarati) – TIR 200

Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) – TIR 21

Harold Brown, Lee Oskar & Howard Scott (WAR) – TIR 11

Harry Elston (The Friends of Distinction) – TIR 81

Headhunters

Heatwave

Herbie Hancock

Honey Cone

Hubert Eaves III (Mtume, D-Train) – TIR 228

Hubert Eaves IV (D-Train, Lisa Lisa, Erykah Badu) – TIR 283

Ida Nielsen (Prince and 3rdEyeGirl) – TIR 135

Ike & Tina Turner Revue

Instant Funk

Isley Brothers

Ivan Neville (Dumpstaphunk, Rolling Stones) – TIR 149

Jacqui Thompson (Prince) – TIR 132

James Alexander (The Bar-Kays) – TIR 224

James Brown

James Mtume (Miles Davis/Mtume) – TIR 29

James “D-Train” Williams (D-Train) – TIR 233

James “Diamond” Williams (The Ohio Players) – TIR 101

Janet Jackson

Janice-Marie Johnson (A Taste of Honey) – TIR 231

Jannetta Warren (ZAPP, Roger Troutman) – TIR 165

Jara Harris (SlapBak) – TIR 56

Jay King (Club Nouveau) – TIR 157

Jef Lee Johnson

Jeff Beck

Jeff Bova (Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, Bootsy) – TIR 251

Jellybean Johnson (The Time, The Family, fDeluxe) – TIR 58

Jennifer Durkin (Deep Banana Blackout) – TIR 68

Jerome Ali (P-Funk) – TIR 194

Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) – TIR 146

Jerry Martini (Sly & the Family Stone) – TIR 201

Jesse Johnson

Jim Callon (Parliament-Funkadelic) – TIR 39

Jim Gilstrap (Stevie Wonder/Quincy Jones) – TIR 46

Jim Wright a.k.a. Jay-Double-You! (P-Funk) – TIR 247

Jimi Hazel (24-7 Spyz) – TIR 187

Jimmy Bralower (Drummer, Producer) – TIR 265

Jimmy Castor Bunch

J.J. Johnson (Radio Personality, KDAY) – TIR 75

Jody Sims (Switch) – TIR 278

Joe “Pep” Harris (Undisputed Truth) – TIR 20

Joe Plass (Shock, Kenny G) – TIR 154

Joey Porter (The Motet) – TIR 212

John Heintz (Big Ol’ Nasty Getdown) – TIR 128

John “Turk” Logan (Dayton Funk) – TIR 103

Johnny “Guitar” Watson

Jonathan Lewis (Atlantic Starr) – TIR 153

Joseph Bowie (Defunkt) – TIR 225

Joyce Kennedy (Mother’s Finest) – TIR 272

Judie Worrell (Bernie Worrell) – TIR 264

Junie Morrison

Kat Dyson (Prince) – TIR 220

Kay-Gees

KC & the Sunshine Band

Keith Harrison (Faze-O/Heatwave/Dazz Band) – TIR 32

Keith Killgo (The Blackbyrds) – TIR 99

Keith LeBlanc (Sugarhill, Tackhead) – TIR 178

Kenny G

Kevin Goins (Quazar, General Caine) – TIR 215

Kevin Lassiter (Kay-Gees, Kool & the Gang) – TIR 156

Kevin Spencer (Dynasty, SOLAR Records) – TIR 150

Kevin Toney (Blackbyrds) – TIR 15

Kid Rock

Kiddo

Kim Miller (Instant Funk) – TIR 163

Kip Blackshire (Prince) – TIR 248

Kipper Jones (Tease, Vanessa Williams) – TIR 196

Kleeer

Klymaxx

Kool & the Gang

Kool Moe Dee (Rap legend) – TIR 109

Kurtis Blow

Kym Yancey (Sun) – TIR 48

Labelle

Lakeside

Lanise & Nate Hughes (Rick James’ Stone City Band) – TIR 7

Larry Dodson (Bar-Kays) – TIR 41

Larry Dunn (Earth, Wind & Fire) – TIR 42

Larry Fratangelo (P-Funk, Kid Rock, Sessions) – TIR 238

Larry Williams (Seawind, Quincy Jones) – TIR 274

Lee Oskar (Harmonica Legend) – TIR 13

Lenny White (Jazz Fusion-R&B Drummer) – TIR 89

Lenny White’s Twentynine

Lenny Williams (Tower of Power) – TIR 210

Leo Nocentelli (The Meters) – TIR 131

Leonard “Doc” Gibbs (Grover Washington Jr./Bob James) – TIR 36

LeRoi Johnson (Rick James’ Brother/Manager), Parts 1-2 – TIR 129

LeRoi Johnson (Rick James’ Brother/Manager), Parts 3-4 – TIR 130

Leroy Burgess (Black Ivory, Dance Music Icon) – TIR 232

Leroy Emmanuel (The Counts, Bohannon) – TIR 282

Lettuce

Levi Seacer Jr. (Prince) – TIR 269

Lige Curry (P-Funk/George Clinton) – TIR 52

Lisa Coleman (Prince) – TIR 91

Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam

Little Richard

Liv Warfield (Prince) – TIR 291

Living Colour

Lonnie Marshall (Weapon of Choice) – TIR 166

Loose Ends

L.T.D.

Luther Vandross

Lynn Davis (George Duke, R&B Sessions Singing Star) – TIR 226

Maceo Parker

Madonna

Mandrill

Mark Kenoly (Rose Royce, Norman Whitfield) – TIR 95

Mark Lettieri (Snarky Puppy) – TIR 208

Mark Lockett (The Reddings) – TIR 90

Marlon McClain (Pleasure; Shock; Dazz Band) – TIR 145

Martha High (James Brown) – TIR 235

Marva King (Prince, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson) – TIR 203

Mass Production

Matt “Dr.” Fink (Prince & the Revolution) – TIR 51

Maxayn Lewis (Maxayn) – TIR 77

Mazarati

Maze

Melba Moore -TIR 256

Meli’sa Morgan – TIR 273

Meters

Michael Beinhorn (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Herbie Hancock, Soundgarden) – TIR 246

Michael Bland (Prince), Parts 1-2 – TIR 254

Michael Bland (Prince, Jef Lee Johnson, Soul Asylum), Parts 3-4 – TIR 255

Michael Hepburn & Nathaniel Phillips (Pleasure), Parts 1-2 – TIR 97

Michael Hepburn & Nathaniel Phillips (Pleasure), Parts 3-4 – TIR 98

Michael Jackson

Michael “Moneystone” Judkins (ADC Band) – TIR 159

Michael “Clip” Payne (Parliament-Funkadelic), Parts 1-2 – TIR 116

Michael “Clip” Payne (Parliament-Funkadelic), Parts 3-4 – TIR 117

Michael Ray (Sun Ra, Kool & the Gang) – TIR 257

Mico Wave (Bootsy) – TIR 188

Midnight Star

Miles Davis

Mick Grudge & Morris Price (Brass Construction) – TIR 67

Mike Clark (The Headhunters) – TIR 86

Miscellaneous

Monte Moir (The Time) – TIR 45

Morris Day

Morris Hayes (Prince & the NPG) – TIR 16

Motet

Mother’s Finest

Motown

Mtume

Muruga Booker (P-Funk, Weather Report) – TIR 202

Najee

Narada Michael Walden

Natalie Cole

Nathan East (Bass Icon, Fourplay, Eric Clapton) – TIR 237

Neftali Santiago (Mandrill) – TIR 23

Nelson George (Music Journalist) – TIR 145

New Birth

New Mastersounds

Newcleus

Nikki Glaspie (Beyonce, Dumpstaphunk) – TIR 207

Nile Rodgers

Nite-Liters

Norman Whitfield

Norwood Fisher (Fishbone) – TIR 167

OctavePussy

Ohio Players

O’Jays

Oliver C. Brown (KC & the Sunshine Band) – TIR 230

Ollie E. Brown (Raydio, Quincy Jones) – TIR 170

Omar Mesa (Mandrill) – TIR 268

One Way

Orlando Phillips (Starpoint) – TIR 281

Osiris Marsh (Osiris) – TIR 60

Otis Stokes (Lakeside) – TIR 290

Outkast

Ozone

Parliament-Funkadelic

Patryce “Choc’Let” Banks (Graham Central Station) – TIR 31

Paul Jackson Jr. (Jazz-R&B-Pop Guitarist) – TIR 104

Paul Peterson (The Time/The Family/fDeluxe) – TIR 38

Pepe Willie (Prince, Morris Day) – TIR 244

Peter Rivera (Rare Earth) – TIR 213

Philip Bailey (Earth, Wind and Fire) – TIR 100

Philip Woo (Roy Ayers, Maze) – TIR 85

Phillip Jones (PTFI) – TIR 134

Pieces of a Dream

Platypus

Pleasure

Pockets

Poogie Bell (Jazz-Funk Drummer) – TIR 123

Preston Glass (Producer, Composer) – TIR 191

Prince

PTFI

Quazar

Quincy Jones

Rahni Song (Keyboardist/Producer/Composer) – TIR 286

Randy Brecker (The Brecker Brothers) – TIR 112

Rare Earth

Raydio

Raymond Calhoun & Oliver Scott (Gap Band) – TIR 8

Ready for the World

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Reddings

Regi Hargis & Jimmy Brown (Brick) – TIR 9

Reggie Calloway (Midnight Star) – TIR 6

Regina Jones (Founder of SOUL Newspaper) – TIR 82

Return to Forever

Rhonda Smith (Prince, Jeff Beck) – TIR 147

Richard Lee & Eric Rohrbaugh (Kleeer) – TIR 78

Rick Gardner (Horny Horns, P-Funk) – TIR 92

Rick James

Ricky Peterson (Prince) – TIR 271

Ricky Williams (Mass Production) – TIR 64

Robert “Kool” Bell (Kool & the Gang) – TIR 73

Robert Harper (Funk Bassist) – TIR 198

Robert Margouleff (Stevie Wonder) – TIR 63

Robert Mercurio (Galactic) – TIR 184

Robert Palmer

Robin Russell (New Birth) – TIR 193

Robin Trower

Rod Stewart

Rodney “Skeet” Curtis (P-Funk, Maceo Parker) – TIR 111

Roger Troutman & ZAPP

Rolling Stones

Ronald LaPread (The Commodores) – TIR 242

Ronnie Laws (Jazz-R&B Saxophonist) – TIR 87

RonKat Spearman (P-Funk) – TIR 181

Rose Royce

Rotary Connection

Roy Ayers

Rufus

Run-DMC

Rustee Allen (Sly & the Family Stone) – TIR 267

Salsoul Orchestra

Sam Carter (Slave, Steve Arrington) – TIR 266

Sandra St. Victor (The Family Stand, Chaka Khan) – TIR 288

Seawind

Seven Eleven

Shadow

Sheldon Reynolds (Sun/Commodores/Earth, Wind & Fire) – TIR 34

Sheila Brody, a.k.a. Amuka Kelly (Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk) – TIR 115

Sheila E

Shelly Clark (Honey Cone) – TIR 219

Shirley Hayden (Parlet, P-Funk) – TIR 234

Shock

Sidney Barnes (Rotary Connection, P-Funk) – TIR 84

Simon Allen (The New Mastersounds) – TIR 136

Simon Bartholomew (The Brand New Heavies) – TIR 211

Skip Martin (Dazz Band, Kool & the Gang) – TIR 110

Skyy

SlapBak

Slave

Sly & the Family Stone

Snarky Puppy

Solar Records

Soul Asylum

Soulive

Sound Barrier

Soundgarden

Spacey T (Sound Barrier, Fishbone) – TIR 192

Spinners

Splendor

Starpoint

Starr Cullars (Prince, P-Funk) – TIR 158

Steve Ferrone (AWB, Chaka Khan, Tom Petty) – TIR 287

Steve Arrington (Slave) – TIR 4

Steve Boyd (Five Special, P-Funk) – TIR 114

Steve Winwood

Steven van Rijn (OctavePussy) – TIR 120

Stevie Salas (George Clinton, Bootsy, Rod Stewart) – TIR 189

Stevie Wonder

Strikers

Stix Hooper (Crusaders) – TIR 236

Stuart Gray (Funk & Soul Roadie/Production Manager) – TIR 259

Sueann Carwell (Jesse Johnson, Prince) – TIR 195

Sugarhill Records

Sun

Sun Ra

Switch

System

T-Connection

Tackhead

Talking Heads

Tawatha Agee (Mtume, Sessions Vocalist) – TIR 250

Tease

Terry Allen, Rick Brennan, Toby Johnson (Change) – TIR 241

Thomas McClary (Commodores) – TIR 54

Time

Tom Browne (Funk-Jazz Trumpeter) – TIR 14

Tom McDermott (Rick James’ Stone City Band) – TIR 245

Tom Scott (Saxophone & Jazz Icon) – TIR 252

Tom Vickers 1 (Parliament-Funkadelic) – TIR 35

Tom Vickers 2 (Music Industry Figure) – TIR 49

Tomi Jenkins (Cameo) – TIR 5

Toto

Tower of Power

Trammps

Trey Stone (Norman Whitfield, General Caine, Bootsy) – TIR 168

Trouble Funk

24-7 Spyz

Undisputed Truth

Val Young (Rick James, Gap Band, Dr. Dre) – TIR 169

Vanessa Williams

Vaughan Mason

Victor Wooten (Bass Master) – TIR 164

Waldo Weathers, Cynthia Moore, Hollie Farris (James Brown Band) – TIR 249

Wally Safford (Prince) – TIR 138

Walter and Scotty Scott (The Whispers) – TIR 190

Wanda Hutchinson (The Emotions) – TIR 124

WAR

Wardell Potts (SOLAR Drummer) – TIR 161

Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

Wayne Vaughn (Brothers Johnson; Emotions; Earth, Wind & Fire) – TIR 142

Weapon of Choice

Weather Report

Wes Boatman (Bootsy, Ohio Players, Junie Morrison) – TIR 253

Whispers

Willie Triplett, Gerald Valentine (Ready for the World) – TIR 258

UPCOMING SHOWS . . .

TIR 292 – Danny Thomas (Con Funk Shun), June 14

TIR 293 – Cindy Blackman (Lenny Kravitz, Santana), June 21

TIR 294 – Jimmy Bo Horne (KC and the Sunshine Band), June 28

TIR 295 – Bennie Cowan (P-Funk), July 5

TIR 296 – Rickey Vincent (Funk Author, Historian), July 12

TIR 297 – Patrice Rushen, July 19

TIR 298 – Billy Cobham, July 26

TIR 299 – Hollie Farris (James Brown), August 2

TIR 300 – Theophilus Coakley (T-Connection), August 9