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The Funk All-Stars - Osaka, Japan - Track 1, part 1 FredWesleyTV 4,651 views The Funk All-Stars: Dr. Lonnie Smith, Pee Wee Ellis, FRED WESLEY, Rodney Jones and Idris Muhammad, Billboard Live, Osaka, 2008.
The Funk All-Stars - Osaka, Japan - Track 1, part 2 FredWesleyTV 2,041 views The Funk All-Stars: Dr. Lonnie Smith, Pee Wee Ellis, FRED WESLEY, Rodney Jones and Idris Muhammad, Billboard Live, Osaka, 2008.
Abraham Inc. FredWesleyTV 2,180 views Featuring: David Krakauer, FRED WESLEY & Socalled w/C-Rayz Walz
Fred Wesley Band - #7 FredWesleyTV 1,609 views The Fred Wesley Group in performance at the 2008 Fuji Rock Festival, Mt. Naeba, Japan, as part of the Bootsy Collins Tribute to the Godfather of Soul. Bruce Cox on drums, D...
Fred Wesley Band - #6 FredWesleyTV 1,486 views The Fred Wesley Group in performance at the 2008 Fuji Rock Festival, Mt. Naeba, Japan, as part of the Bootsy Collins Tribute to the Godfather of Soul. Bruce Cox on drums, D...
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Fred Wesley Band - #1 FredWesleyTV 5,249 views The Fred Wesley Group in performance at the 2008 Fuji Rock Festival, Mt. Naeba, Japan, as part of the Bootsy Collins Tribute to the Godfather of Soul. Bruce Cox on drums,...

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Fred Wesley is best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s and 1970s. During 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" and co-writing tunes such as "Hot Pants". In the 1970s he also served as band leader and musical director of Brown's band the J.B.'s.

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One of the music world's most-sampled artists thanks to his work with the Godfather of Soul James Brown, Fred Wesley is one of the key architects of funk music. Born in Mobile, Ala., he began his professional career as a teenage trombonist with Ike and Tina Turner. He was music director, arranger, trombonist and a primary composer for James Brown from 1968-1975, then arranged and played for Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsys Rubber Band. He has played with and arranged for a wide variety of other artists including Ray Charles, Pancho Sanchez, New York Voices, Slide Hampton, Van Morrison, the SOS Band and Cameo, to name a few. Scores of other artists including Janet Jackson ("That's the Way Love Goes") and Nas ("Nastradamus") have sampled his work. Since his stint with the Count Basie Orchestra, he has maintained a focus on jazz playing (with the Fred Wesley Group), recording, writing and promoting it. His solo jazz recordings include To Someone, Amalgamation, Comme Ci Comme Ca, Full Circle and Wuda Cuda Shuda. In Japan, FUJIPACIFICMUSIC and Columbia Music entertainment just released his latest excursion back into the funk, "Funk For Your Ass," and the remix album "The Godfather of Soul Train."

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Wesley served as an adjunct professor in the Jazz Studies department of the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro from 2004 to 2006.

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