As directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, member of the hip-hop band the Roots and Jimmy Fallon’s late-night bandleader, the feature splices together performance footage, photography, TV news ...

In SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the pressure Sly felt as a Black artist. "Sly will ...

The new documentary “Sly Lives, aka the Burden of Black Genius,” which focuses on the life and career of the brilliant but ...

His extraordinary musical gifts were apparent early on. After a teaser opening that poses one of the film’s central questions ...

including a wigged Dave Grohl on drums. “Music is driving the show in a way that was both obvious and not obvious at the same time,” said Oz Rodriguez, who produced the special with Questlove. One ...

Questlove’s follow-up to ‘Summer of Soul ... Stone was also the first songwriter to use a drum machine in a hit song, “Family Affair.” He wrote music that was classified as R&B, soul ...

Questlove: Our first cut was like 244 minutes ... song], and how hard that was for him every night. Ahmir [who played drums on that tour and album] was witness to that. Q: There’s a moment ...

Questlove’s new documentary aims to dissect ... Cynthia Robinson (trumpet), Jerry Martini (sax), Greg Errico (drums) and Larry Graham (bass). (They all provided vocals. But one of the film ...

Questlove says he called the documentary SLY ... On Sly as a musical pioneer Sly's the first person to use a drum machine. Sly's the pioneer of the bedroom, do-it-all-yourself musician.