Smooth jazz fans may recognize the song ‘Play That Funky Music’ as a track from Warren Hills 2005 release ‘Popjazz’ but in fact it’s origins go back to 1976 and the band Wild Cherry. Rumoured to have been written in less than five minutes by the band’s founder, Rob Parissi, it was Wild Cherry’s one and only hit yet the success that the song enjoyed opened doors for Parissi to go on to work with Bobby Caldwell and to co-write several tunes that in the eighties became hits on both sides of the Atlantic.