Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Tuesday's Daily Brief

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Steve Anderson: James Brown RIP: Jump Back, Jack, See You Later, Alligator...

Excerpted From Steve Anderson's Blog:

...James at times danced perilously close to self-parody, but when he was at the height of his powers, there was no tighter, hotter, funk & soul on this planet...

...While to some non-R&B lovers his music might seem primitive, this was far from true. He ran a tight ship as a band leader, and his arrangements were far more clever than most of the contemporary R&B bands. In fact, while we can trace the tradition of the black band leader through Louis Jordan, Cab Callaway and others back to Louis Armstrong and other jazz pioneers, Brown's band was filled with extremely talented jazz players and musical sophisticates...

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