The Afros are groomed, the leisure suits are on, and the Kashmere Stage Band is making it funky. In 1968, musician and composer Conrad O. Johnson, affectionately known as “Prof,” became music director of Kashmere High School in Houston and developed what was arguably the nation’s best high-school jazz and funk band. The all-black group filled the school and community with pride on its way to national and international tours, dancing and playing tight as they went.

Prof’s former protégés—whose lives were changed forever by their time in the band—gather for a reunion concert to honor their aging but spry leader. Mixing vibrant and fun archival footage with interviews of former band members, some of whom haven’t played their instruments for more than thirty years, this is a touching, toe-tapping film that definitely keeps the funk going!  AK