Genres: Soul, Funk, Soul Jazz, Deep Funk Active: 70's Formed: 1970
War, Bernie Worrell, Con Funk Shun, Parliament, The Ohio Players, The Meters, The Memphis Horns, The Bar-Kays, Kool & the Gang, George Clinton, Earth, Wind & Fire, Funkadelic, Graham Central Station, The Gap Band, The Horny Horns, Willie Feaster, The Funk Brothers, Zapp, Junior Walker Brass Construction, Ron Baker, Hamilton Bohannon, The Fatback Band, Brick, Orgone, Zapp, The Isley Brothers, The Fantastic Four, Slum Village, Earl Young, Osaka Monaurail, Calypso King & the Soul Investigators, Poets of Rhythm, 5ive Style, Rico Tubbs, Norman Harris, MFSB, Trouble Funk |  |
The J.B.'s were the legendary supporting cast of musicians behind James Brown, earning a well-deserved reputation as the tightest, best-drilled instrumental ensemble in all of funk. The name J.B.'s is most often associated with three hornmen in particular -- saxophonists Maceo Parker and Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis, and trombonist Fred Wesley, all of whom originally joined Brown's backing band at various points during the '60s. As a recording entity unto themselves, however, the J.B.'s enjoyed a distinctly defined heyday from 1970-1975, under the musical directorship of Wesley (though Brown, naturally, remained a strong presence). The J.B.'s were billed under a variety of alternate names on their own singles and albums -- Fred Wesley and the J.B.'s, Maceo and the Macks, Fred and the New J.B.'s, the James Brown Soul Train, the Last Word, the First Family, and more.
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Release: 2007
Label: , Diaspora Records
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Release: January 1, 2004
Label: Divine Recordings
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