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The highest position of the album Keep it live was No. The follow up single was ‘Keep it live (On the K.I.L.)’ and peaked at No. In 1983 Dazz Band won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. 1 (and stayed there for 5 weeks) on the R&B charts and No 5.

So the group’s breakthrough came with the album Keep It Live (1982), containing their breaking hit “Let It Whip” — which reached No. The groove is both nostalgic and refreshing. Coleman’s version of Let It Whip opens with a fierce bassline. is widely-known for his jazz-funk fusion that often culminates into a festive melody, as we find in his rendition of Let It Whip. That turned out to be “Let it Whip”, ‘which Reggie wrote with West Coast percussion great Leon ‘Ndugu’ Chancler, introducing a high-tech funk groove that would be the sound of choice for the era’. This vibrant remake of the famous Dazz Band song features Fernando Harkless on saxophone. We weren’t going to validate who we were until we had a dance hit’. ‘We called the third album “Keep it live”’, Bobby Harris says, because if it didn’t happen we’d be gone from Motown.

While ballads were the group’s ace in the hole come concert time, they weren’t happening on the radio. They had their first hit with “Shake It Up” in 1980. The Kinsman Dazz became the Dazz Band in 1980. Harris and lead songwriter/guitarist Mike Calhoun’s concept for the group was “danceable jazz” he shortened the description to “dazz” and called the group Kinsman Dazz. Bobby Harris formed the group in the late ’70s, merging two Cleveland funk bands, Bell Telefunk and Mother Braintree. The Cleveland-based Dazz Band was one of the more popular funk groups of the early ’80s. Please note that our catalog only lists songs that we've set up within our system not every track from an album is displayed.