As the story, goes, in the ’70s James Brown offered his longtime trombonist Fred Wesley a chance to release a jazz album under his own name, The JB’s and Fred Wesley. A variety of musicians spent time ...

Trombonist Fred Wesley would like to be known for more than just funk and soul. Since the late ’90s, straight-ahead jazz has been the focus of his Fred Wesley Group. “But trying to get back to jazz ...

The Louis Satchmo Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp is proud to announce the addition of legendary trombonist Fred Wesley as this year’s Artist-In-Residence. The announcement was made at 10 a.m. on Monday, ...

Trombonist Fred Wesley might as well have copyrighted the term “horny horn.” He and bass superhero Bootsy Collins not only share a superhuman ability to evoke sweaty, funky palpitations—they’re also ...

Trombone star Fred Wesley, Jr. is best known for his work as a sideman with James Brown in the 1960s and 70s, when he helped move Brown's sound from soul to funk. But Wesley is also a legendary R&B, ...

Fred Wesley, one of the world's finest funk trombonists, talks about being James Brown's sideman, forming his own band and why he's keen to pass on four decades-worth of experience at the top of the ...

Fred Wesley is a living legend. He played with James Brown and George Clinton - more than that, he wrote and arranged for them; he created the charts for some of the best horn-sections in the business ...

Disillusioned by the bullying that being James Brown's arranger and trombonist entailed, Fred Wesley happily jumped ship (followed by legendary saxophonist Maceo Parker and Richard "Kush" Griffin) ...

Fred Wesley & The New JB's are the primary keepers of roots funk music. Wesley, one of the forefathers of funk, is the legendary bandleader, trombonist who helped make James Brown's music what it was ...

In the late ’60s, the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, had a radical break with his orchestra, which quit over a pay dispute. In its place, Brown hired some fiery teenagers from Cincinnati, bassist ...

It ain't easy being a trombone player in today's music world. They seem to have gotten a bad reputation over the years. You know, strange looking instrument, blatty sound, slow and clunky. There's an ...

May 26, 2010 • Clarinetist David Krakauer is known as both a classical virtuoso and a hard-rocking player of klezmer, the instrumental music of East European Jewry. His new band, a 10-member group ...