James Brown "Soul Pride - The Instrumentals 1960-1969" 1993

"Hello RYP, It's been a while... but here is something for the zone... This is excellent stuff, super funky / jazzy and they play very thight! and good recording also, enjoy, greetings and keep on going." - WYVIn the '60s, James's instrumental recordings - both as bandleader and occasional organist, pianist and drummer - all but constituted a second disc career for the Hardest Working Man in Show Business. It was a career that gave him the odd hit single - "The Popcorn," "Ain't It Funky Now" - but mainly allowed him to fill out LPs with tight band workouts and ultra-hip mood music. Soul Pride brings the word, as it were, from a succession of great lineups, bearing witness as the music evolves from early - '60s remembrances of jump blues through soul jazz and the full-on funk. The usual fascinating liner notes by compilation producers Harry Weinger and Alan Leeds complement the music. - Rickey Wright

trax:
1. Hold It 2. Scratch 3. Suds 4. Cross Firing 5. Limbo Jimbo 6. Joggin' Along 7. Doin' the Limbo 8. Choo-Choo (Locomotion) 9. (Can You) Feel It, Pt. 1 10. Soul Food, Pt. 1 & 2 11. Evil 12. Infatuation 13. Headache 14. Every Beat of My Heart 15. Try Me 16. New Breed 17. Jabo 18. Fat Bag 19. Sumpin' Else 20. Devil's Den [Live] 21. King 22. Mashed Potatoes '66 23. Gittin' a Little Hipper 24. Go on Now 25. In the Middle, Pt. 1 26. Tighten Up [Live] 27. Popcorn 28. Soul Pride, Pt, 1 & 2 29. Sudsy 30. Chicken 31. Chase 32. Come on in the House 33. Lowdown Popcorn [Buttered Version] 34. Top of the Stack 35. Ain't It Funky Now, Pts. 1 & 2 36. Funky Drummer [The Original Tambourine Mix]
...served by WYV...