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Fred Wesley/James Brown, Damn Right I'm Somebody

Fred Wesley, Funk For Your Ass

Fred Wesley, Bop To The Boogie

Bootsy Collins/George Clinton/Glenn Lamonte Goins, Four Play

Earl King, Trick Bag

Deniece Williams/Hank Redd/Nathan Watts/Susaye Greene, Free

Bruce Cox, Improvisation

Fred Wesley, For The Elders

Fred Wesley, Breakin' Bread

Charles Bobbit/James Brown/John Starks, Pass The Peas

James Brown, Gimme Some More

James Brown, Doing It To Death

Fred Wesley & The New JBs in France

Jazz à Vienne 2012

Jazz
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Cast

Fred Wesley — Bandleader, trombonist, singer

Phillip Whack — Saxophonist, Vocalist, singer

Gary Winters — Trumpeter

Reggie Ward — Electric guitar, Vocalist

Peter Madsen — Electric keyboard

Dwayne Dolphin — Bass guitarist

Bruce Cox — Drummer

Program notes

A major figure of Soul and Funk, American trombonist, singer, arranger, and composer Fred Wesley is one of the architects of the “James Brown sound”, which he developed in the 1960s alongside saxophonists Maceo Parker and Pee Wee Ellis. As part of their “JBs” band, these three wonderful musicians formed one of the most extraordinary Funk brass sections of all times.

During this concert on the stage of the Jazz à Vienne festival, Fred Wesley and “The New JBs” bring the composer’s works to life with overwhelming energy, as well as George Clinton and James Brown songs on which he collaborated. With For The Elders, we also hear a sound close to that of the “Jazz Messengers”, a testimony to the artist’s will to bring Funk and Jazz closer together.

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