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Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman
With Hit Me, Fred, sensational sideman Fred Wesley Jr. moves front and center to tell his life story. A legendary funk, soul, and jazz musician, Wesley is best known for his work in the late sixties and early seventies with James Brown and as the leader of Brown’s band, Fred Wesley and the JB’s. Having been the band’s music director, arranger, trombone player, and frequent...more
Hardcover, 344 pages
Published
September 25th 2002
by Duke University Press Books
(first published July 2002)
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I had to read this book because James Browns music was the soundtrack of my youth. I'll never forget the thumping bass line to Mother Popcorn emminating from the speakers of the record shop that literally trancended anything musical I had heard before...It awakened that Deep South and African part of me that until that moment I didn't know existed...what a rush...Fred Wesley didn't play on that record but he did write, conduct, arrange and promote many other James Brown classics. I had heard man...more
This book is the shit. Fred Wesley is the best funk trombonist ever to live and this is a stupendous expose of the ups and downs of life on the road with the Godfather of Soul and devoting your entire life to making sweet soul music.
Andrius Urbaitis
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