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?".
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