Thursday 25 May 2023 2023
Born in Columbus, Georgia, and raised in Mobile, Ala., Fred Wesley began his career as a teenage trombonist with Ike and Tina Turner. He later was music director, arranger, trombonist and a primary composer for James Brown
from 1968-1975, then arranged for and played with Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy’s Rubber Band.
Today, he plays and records with his own jazz-funk band, the New JBs, and is one-third of the innovative “klezmer-funk” collaboration Abraham Inc. He also freelances as an arranger, producer and studio performer, and shares
his wealth of musical knowledge with young musicians and music students in educational settings worldwide.
“ Funk grooves screwed down impossibly tight “