Name: In The Jungle Groove
Brand: James Brown

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

761732

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Limited edition

Release date

2008-08-05

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Supplier GB

Universal

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Standard:20

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

James Brown

Genre GB

Funk / Soul

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James Brown was an American singer, songwriter, arranger, and dancer, who was one of the most important and influential entertainers in 20th-century&nbsp;popular music&nbsp;and whose remarkable achievements earned him the honorific nickname “the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business.”

Brown began his career as a&nbsp;gospel&nbsp;singer and rose to prominence in the mid-1950s, building&nbsp;a reputation as a dynamic live performer with the Famous Flames and his backing band, sometimes known as the James Brown Band or the James Brown Orchestra. His success peaked in the 1960s with hit singles such as "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", "I Got You (I Feel Good)" and "It's a Man's Man's Man's World".

During the late 1960s, Brown moved to a new approach to music-making, emphasising stripped-down interlocking rhythms that influenced the development of funk music. By the early 1970s, Brown had fully established the funk sound with records such as "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" and "The Payback". He also became noted for songs of social commentary, including the 1968 hit "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud". Brown continued to perform and record until his death in 2006.

'in the jungle groove' documents one of the most important periods in the development of james brown's music. in 1970, brown's bandleader/sax player maceo parker departed to form his own band, taking much of brown's group with him. this event heralded the arrival of the jb's, which included monster bassist bootsy collins, whose hyperkinetic style made brown's funk harder, leaner, and meaner. this album gives listeners a bird's-eye view of the change, featuring the final sessions of the maceo-led band as well as the first recordings of bootsy and the jb's.maceo and company were at their hardest and funkiest at this point, as seen on "the funky drummer," where clyde stubblefield lays down the drum break that would launch a thousand hip-hop samples. stubblefield stuck around long enough to be part of the first jb's, whose tracks here are full of frenetic, barely controlled energy. the sense of joy and revelation in the groove is audible in these orgasmically polyrhythmic sessions. collins and stubblefield lay down some of the heaviest grooves in the history of recorded music.Double vinyl US import.

In The Jungle Groove

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