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The Dazz Band was a funk music band based in Cleveland, Ohio that enjoyed brief popularity in the United States in the early 1980s. The name of the band is a concatenation of "Danceable Jazz". The group's hits included the songs "Let it Whip" and "Joystick". The Dazz Band grew out of fusion group Telefunk, which comprised {MIKE CALHOUN} Bobby Harris, Isaac "Ike" Wiley, Jr., his brother Michael Wiley, and Kenny Pettus. Telefunk eventually became {Kinsman} Dazz}, named after the street in Cleveland where Harris had grown up. The group changed its name before the unrelated song 'Dazz' became an R&B hit for Brick in 1976. {Kinsman Dazz} was signed to {20th Century Records} by Joe Lewis. The group went to Los Angeles to record for producer Marvin Gaye. Owing to illness, Gaye had to back out of the duties. Harris requested and got {Philip Bailey}, the vocalist of {Earth, Wind & Fire}, to produce the group's first album, {Kinsman Dazz}. Bailey would co-produce the second album, Dazz, and had a major input into the group's vocal arrangements. The {Kinsman Dazz} became the Dazz Band in 1980. Separately, the 20th Century Records label was closed, and the Dazz Band was signed to Motown.$
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