Fred Wesley at Hideaway

Former James Brown Band leader and P Funk-a-teer, FRED WESLEY returns with his GENERATIONS project.\nFred funking on the T-Bone with Leonardo Corradi on Hammond plus bass pedals and the groove machine that is Tony Match on drums. The Generations rip up the rule book and explode the grooves of Jimmy Smith plus some huge funk treats... DO NOT MISS!!\nLegendary bandleader and trombonist Fred Wesley is one of the forefathers of funk and he is still setting the standard for others to follow. As music director for James Brown and the JBs, arranger for P-Funk and one third of the amazing JB Horns, he secured his place in funk history forever!\nDuring the 1960s and 1970s he was a pivotal member of James Brown’s bands, playing on many hit recordings including ‘Say it Loud - I’m Black and I’m Proud’, ‘Mother Popcorn’ and co-writing tunes such as “Hot Pants”...

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Former James Brown Band leader and P Funk-a-teer, FRED WESLEY returns with his GENERATIONS project.\nFred funking on the T-Bone with Leonardo Corradi on Hammond plus bass pedals and the groove machine that is Tony Match on drums. The Generations rip up the rule book and explode the grooves of Jimmy Smith plus some huge funk treats... DO NOT MISS!!\nLegendary bandleader and trombonist Fred Wesley is one of the forefathers of funk and he is still setting the standard for others to follow. As music director for James Brown and the JBs, arranger for P-Funk and one third of the amazing JB Horns, he secured his place in funk history forever!\nDuring the 1960s and 1970s he was a pivotal member of James Brown’s bands, playing on many hit recordings including ‘Say it Loud - I’m Black and I’m Proud’, ‘Mother Popcorn’ and co-writing tunes such as “Hot Pants”. His slippery riffs and pungent, precise solos, complementing those of saxophonist Maceo Parker, gave Brown’s R&B, soul and funk tunes their instrumental punch. In the 1970s he also served as band leader and musical director of Brown’s band the J.B.’s and did much of the composing and arranging for the group.\nHis name was credited on ‘Fred Wesley & the J.B.’s’ recording of  ‘Doing It to Death’, which sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in July 1973.\nHe left Brown’s band in 1975 and spent several years playing with George Clinton’s various Parliament-Funkadelic projects, even recording a couple of albums as the leader of a spin-off group, The Horny Horns.\nWesley became a force in jazz in 1978 when he joined the Count Basie Orchestra. He released his first jazz album as a band leader, ‘To Someone’ in 1988.\nIn the early 1990s Wesley toured with his colleagues from the James Brown band, Pee Wee Ellis and Maceo Parker, as the JB Horns. With the departure of Ellis the band became The Maceo Parker Band. Wesley was featured trombonist with Parker until 1996 when he formed his own band, The Fred Wesley Group, now known as Fred Wesley and the New JBs.\nWesley’s outstanding career includes playing with and arranging for a wide variety of other artists such as Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, Randy Crawford, Vanessa Williams, The SOS Band, Cameo, Van Morrison, Socalled and rappers De La Soul, to name a few.

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