Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band

Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band
Studio album by Bill Cosby
Released	August 1971
Recorded	1971
Genre	Jazz, jazz funk [1]
Length	35:45
Bill Cosby chronology
For Adults Only (1971) Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band (1971) Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs (1971)

Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band (1971) is an album by Bill Cosby. It is an instrumental jazz-funk album in which Cosby plays Rhodes piano. It is his third musical album release. The first track is a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. It was issued on compact disc in 2008 by Dusty Groove.

Another jazz-funk album, titled Bill Cosby Presents Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral Marching Band (no "&" between Funeral and Marching), was released the following year. Cosby did not perform on that album, but he wrote the music and produced it.

Reception

A contemporary review in the jazz publication DownBeat awarded the album one-and-a-half stars and began with the words "Aw, no, Cos. What'd you wanna do this for?". ^[2]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
DownBeat	[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Bill Cosby.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Martin's Funeral"	15:30
2.	"Hybish Shybish"	20:15

References

1. Jurek, Thom. "Bill Cosby Presents Badfoot Brown and the Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band". AllMusic. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
2. Down Beat: October 1, 1970 vol. 37, no. 19.