Fairway - Gene Dunlap:
Featured on Fresh Trax Edition 403 - April 16th, 2006
Detroit native Gene Dunlap took up drums in high school. Early on, he connected with Earl Klugh and they played a few local clubs. Stints with Grant Green and Roy Ayers followed before Dunlap reunited with Klugh in the mid-'70s. This partnership endured as over the next 20 years, Gene took part in a lengthy series of Klugh releases, his tenure interrupted only by breaks during which he recorded three of his own projects. Meanwhile Dunlap added percussion, guitar, synthesizer, and composing to his repertoire. 1994 saw the issue of Groove with You, but despite the success of that effort, shortly after its release, Dunlap gave up performing to teach in Detroit's inner city.

He returned to the music scene in the year 2000 ... go to the feature.