These Are The JBs

Description

The unreleased album by James Browns backing band: The Bootsy Collins-led JBs. This album is the Rosetta Stone of funks dominant idioms, yet its existence is barely a rumor. In 1970, James Brown perfectly captured a definitive moment in modern music when he ordered Bootsy Collins into the studio to record the tracks that would be test-pressed on King Records as These Are The JBs. And if there is any funk ensemble as influential as Browns, in the post-Cold Sweat musical landscape, its the Parliament Funkadelic contingent. Those two streams, as Grammy-winning James Brown historian Alan Leeds details in this albums liner notes, converged for the first time here. There are only two extant copies of the original King Records test press LP of These Are The JBs. This, the first commercial issue of this album, was overseen by Now-Agains Egon alongside Leeds and Universal Music Groups James Brown expert Harry Weinger. It was mastered specifically for vinyl by Elysian Masters Dave Cooley from the original two-track stereo master that James Brown and his engineer Ron Lenhoff delivered to production forty-four years ago and is packaged in a thick, tip-on Stoughton jacket. it comes with a 12 page book of liner notes by Leeds and Egon and many unpublished photographs and ephemera.