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The J.B.'s

Index The J.B.'s

The J.B.'s (sometimes punctuated The JB's or The J.B.s) was the name of James Brown's band from 1970 through the early 1980s. [1]

75 relations: Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra, Album, Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis, Alone Again (Naturally), Average White Band, Back Stabbers (song), Bernie Worrell, Bobby Byrd, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Bootsy Collins, Catfish Collins, Clyde Stubblefield, CNN, Conga, Disc jockey, Disco, Doing It to Death, Doing It to Death (album), Electric organ, Fred Wesley, Funk, George Clinton (musician), Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, Gimme Some More (The J.B.'s song), Gramavision Records, Hip hop music, Hollie Farris, Instrumental, James Brown, Jazz, Jimmy Nolen, Joel Whitburn, John "Jabo" Starks, King Records (United States), Love, Power, Peace: Live at the Olympia, Paris, 1971, Lyn Collins, Maceo Parker, MFSB, Music recording certification, P-Vine Records, Parliament-Funkadelic, Pass the Peas, Polydor Records, Record labels owned by James Brown, Record producer, Recording Industry Association of America, Reissue, Rhino Entertainment, Rhythm and blues, Richard Mazda, ..., Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Salsoul Orchestra, Sampling (music), Sex Machine (album), Single (music), Soul music, Soul Power, St. Clair Pinckney, Super Bad (song), Superbad (film), Superbad (soundtrack), Sweet Charles Sherrell, Synthesizer, Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing, The Famous Flames, The Funk Brothers, The Grunt, The Horny Horns, The Pacemakers (funk band), The Wrecking Crew (music), Trombone, Tyrone Jefferson, Vicki Anderson, Watermelon Man (composition), 1975 in music. Expand index (25 more) »

Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra

The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra was a group of Hollywood session musicians organized by Frank Zappa in 1967 to record music for his first solo album Lumpy Gravy.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis

Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis (born April 21, 1941) is an American saxophonist, composer and arranger.

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Alone Again (Naturally)

"Alone Again (Naturally)" is a song by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan.

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Average White Band

Average White Band (also AWB) are a Scottish funk and R&B band that had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980.

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Back Stabbers (song)

"Back Stabbers" is a 1972 song by the O'Jays.

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Bernie Worrell

George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) was an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads.

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Bobby Byrd

Bobby Howard Byrd (August 15, 1934 – September 12, 2007) was an American R&B/soul singer, songwriter, bandleader, talent scout, record producer, and musician, who played an integral and important part in the development of soul and funk music in association with James Brown.

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Booker T. & the M.G.'s

Booker T. & the M.G.'s is an instrumental R&B/funk band that was influential in shaping the sound of Southern soul and Memphis soul.

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Bootsy Collins

William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951) is an American musician and singer-songwriter.

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Catfish Collins

Phelps "Catfish" Collins (October 17, 1943 – August 6, 2010) was an American musician.

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Clyde Stubblefield

Clyde Austin Stubblefield (April 18, 1943 – February 18, 2017) was an American drummer best known for his work with James Brown.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Conga

The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Doing It to Death

"Doing It to Death", also known as "Gonna Have a Funky Good Time", is a funk song recorded by The J.B.'s featuring James Brown.

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Doing It to Death (album)

Doing It to Death is an album by The J.B.'s, released in 1973 by People Records.

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Electric organ

An electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ.

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Fred Wesley

Fred Wesley (born July 4, 1943) is an American jazz and funk trombonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the second half of the 1970s.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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George Clinton (musician)

George Edward Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer.

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Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine

"Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" is a song recorded by James Brown with Bobby Byrd on backing vocals.

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Gimme Some More (The J.B.'s song)

"Gimme Some More" is a 1971 song written by James Brown and recorded by his band, The J.B.'s.

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Gramavision Records

Gramavision Records is an American record label founded in 1979.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hollie Farris

Hollie Farris is a professional musician, a trumpet player who has played and recorded with James Brown and was a member of The J.B.'s.

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Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, or singing, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a Big Band setting.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jimmy Nolen

Jimmy Nolen (April 3, 1934 – December 18, 1983) - accessed November 13, 2011 was an American guitarist, known for his distinctive "chicken scratch" lead guitar playing in James Brown's bands.

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Joel Whitburn

Joel Carver Whitburn (born November 29, 1939) is an American author and music historian.

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John "Jabo" Starks

John Henry "Jabo" Starks (October 26, 1937 – May 1, 2018) was an American funk and blues drummer best known for playing with James Brown.

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King Records (United States)

King Records was an American leading independent record company and label founded in 1943 by Syd Nathan in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Love, Power, Peace: Live at the Olympia, Paris, 1971

Love, Power, Peace: Live at the Olympia, Paris, 1971 is a live album by James Brown.

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Lyn Collins

Gloria Lavern Collins (June 12, 1948 – March 13, 2005), better known as Lyn Collins, was an American soul singer best known for working with James Brown in the 1970s and for the influential 1972 funk single, "Think (About It)".

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Maceo Parker

Maceo Parker (born February 14, 1943) is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s.

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MFSB

MFSB, officially standing for "Mother Father Sister Brother", was a pool of more than thirty studio musicians based at Philadelphia’s famed Sigma Sound Studios.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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P-Vine Records

P-Vine Records is an independent record label, started by Blues Interactions, a firm in Tokyo, Japan established in 1975 by Yasufumi Higurashi and Akira Kochi.

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Parliament-Funkadelic

Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American funk music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the individual bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s.

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Pass the Peas

"Pass the Peas" is a 1972 funk instrumental by The J.B.'s.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Record labels owned by James Brown

Over the course of his career James Brown owned and operated several different record labels, which he used primarily to release his own productions of artists associated with his revue.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Reissue

In the music industry, a reissue (also re-release, orepackage, or re-edition) is the release of an album or single which has been released at least once before, sometimes with alterations or additions.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Richard Mazda

Richard Mazda (born 5 May 1955 (age 62)) is a record producer, writer and musician.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Salsoul Orchestra

The Salsoul Orchestra was the backing band of session musicians for many acts on New York City label, Salsoul Records and, under its own name, recorded several hit singles and albums between 1975 and 1982.

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Sex Machine (album)

Sex Machine is a 1970 double album by James Brown.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Soul Power

"Soul Power" is a song by James Brown.

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St. Clair Pinckney

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Super Bad (song)

"Super Bad", originally titled Call Me Super Bad, is a 1970 song by James Brown.

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Superbad (film)

Superbad is a 2007 American coming-of-age teen comedy film directed by Greg Mottola and produced by Judd Apatow.

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Superbad (soundtrack)

Superbad is the soundtrack to the 2007 film of the same name.

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Sweet Charles Sherrell

"Sweet" Charles Sherrell (born Charles Emanuel Sherrell, March 8, 1943) is an American bassist known for recording and performing with James Brown.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing

"Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" is a funk song written by James Brown and Bobby Byrd.

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The Famous Flames

The Famous Flames were an American rhythm and blues vocal group founded in Toccoa, Georgia, in 1953 by Bobby Byrd.

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The Funk Brothers

The Funk Brothers were a group of Detroit-based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972.

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The Grunt

"The Grunt" is a funk instrumental recorded in 1970 by James Brown's band The J.B.'s.

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The Horny Horns

The Horny Horns were a horn section associated with Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy's Rubber Band led by trombonist Fred Wesley.

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The Pacemakers (funk band)

The Pacemakers were a late-1960s American funk group that consisted of bassist William "Bootsy" Collins, his older brother Phelps "Catfish" Collins on guitar, Philippé Wynne on vocals, and drummer Will Jackson (later replaced by Frankie "Kash" Waddy).

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The Wrecking Crew (music)

The Wrecking Crew was a loose collective of session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and early 1970s, including several hundred Top 40 hits.

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Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Tyrone Jefferson

Tyrone Jefferson (born July 5, 1953) is an American trombonist, composer, arranger and producer.

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Vicki Anderson

Vicki Anderson (born Myra Barnes; November 21, 1939) is an American soul singer best known for her performances with the James Brown Revue.

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Watermelon Man (composition)

"Watermelon Man" is a jazz standard written by Herbie Hancock, first released on his debut album, Takin' Off (1962).

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1975 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1975.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_J.B.'s

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