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<category name="Bands_and_Artists/K/Kool_and_the_Gang" canapply="1" cansubmit="1" type="band">
   <summary>Influential funk ensemble, formed in Jersey City, New Jersey.</summary>
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   <subcat name="Members" priority="1" items="0" />
   <name>Kool and the Gang</name>
   <from>United States</from>
   <style number="1">Funk</style>
   <founded>1964</founded>
   <logo src="http://musicmoz.org/img/editors/poppyseed/kool_andthe_gang.jpg" width="197" height="142" />
   <member name="Ronald Bell" role="tenor saxaphone" />
   <member name="Robert Bell" role="bass" />
   <member name="Dennis Thomas" role="alto saxaphone" />
   <member name="George Brown" role="drumsq" />
   <member name="Clifford Adams" role="trombone" />
   <pastmember name="Robert Mickens" role="trumpet" />
   <pastmember name="Woody Sparrow" role="guitar" />
   <pastmember name="Rick West" role="keyboards" />
   <pastmember name="James Taylor" role="vocals" ref="Bands_and_Artists/T/Taylor,_James" />
   <pastmember name="Earl Toon" role="keyboards" />

   <release type="album" name="Ladies' Night" date="1979" />
   <release type="album" name="Light of Worlds" date="1974" />
   <release type="album" name="Unite" date="1993" />
   <release type="album" name="Best, The [compilation]" date="1974" />
   <release type="album" name="Love and Understanding" date="1976" />
   <release type="album" name="As One" date="1982" />
   <release type="album" name="Spirit of the Boogie" date="1975" />
   <release type="album" name="Something Special" date="1981" />
   <release type="album" name="Kool Kuts [compilation]" date="1982" />
   <release type="album" name="Good Times" date="1973" />
   <release type="album" name="Sweat" date="1989" />
   <release type="album" name="In the Heart" date="1983" />
   <release type="album" name="Force, The" date="1977" />
   <release type="album" name="Wild and Peaceful" date="1973" />
   <release type="album" name="Twice as Kool" date="1983" />
   <release type="album" name="Music Is the Message" date="1972" />
   <release type="album" name="Open Sesame" date="1976" />
   <release type="album" name="Everybody's Dancin'" date="1978" />
   <release type="album" name="State of Affairs" date="1996" />
   <release type="album" name="Kool and the Gang's Past Hits [compilation]" date="1981" />
   <release type="album" name="Kool and the Gang" date="1969" />
   <release type="album" name="14 Love Songs [compilation]" date="1991" />
   <release type="album" name="Live at P.J.'s" date="1971" />
   <release type="album" name="Forever" date="1986" />
   <release type="album" name="Kool and the Gang Greatest Hits [compilation]" date="1975" />
   <release type="album" name="Emergency" date="1984" />
   <release type="album" name="Night People" date="1994" />
   <release type="album" name="Kool Jazz [compilation]" date="1974" />
   <release type="album" name="Greatest Hits and More [compilation]" date="1988" />
   <release type="album" name="Everything Is Kool and the Gang: Greatest Hits [compilation]" date="1988" />
   <release type="album" name="Anthology [compilation]" date="1992" />
   <release type="album" name="Gangland" date="2001" />
   <release type="album" name="Remix Collection [compilation]" date="1992" />
   <release type="album" name="Live at the Sex Machine" date="1971" />
   <release type="album" name="Celebrate" date="1980" />
   <release type="album" name="Dance Collection [compilation]" date="1990" />
   <release type="album" name="Behind the Eyes" date="1976" />
   <release type="album" name="Ballads Collection [compilation]" date="1990" />

   <release type="single" name="Jungle Boogie" date="1973" />
   <release type="single" name="Funky Man " />
   <release type="single" name="Funky Stuff" date="1973" />

   <appearance type="soundtrack" name="200 Cigarettes" ref="Releases/Soundtracks/Movies/2/200_Cigarettes" />
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