Thunder Soul

In Houston, Texas in the late 1960s, musician and composer Conrad O. Johnson, widely known as "Prof", took a job as Music Director at the predominantly black Kashmere High School where he would go on to transform the school's mediocre jazz band into a full-fledged funk powerhouse. The Kashmere High School Stage Band and their dynamic leader would soon become legendary and worldrenowned. In February 2008, 30 former Stage Band members, now all in their fifties, reunited for the first time in 35 years to play a tribute concert for their former teacher, mentor, and beloved bandleader, Prof, who was 92 years old. They would rehearse in the very same band room where they used to practice as kids. And then they would go on to perform before the current student body at the very school where they made history decades earlier. It was unreal. Some of these men and women hadn't picked up their instruments in 34 years! What happens next would prove historic.