If you don't get past the plethora of well known James Brown tracks, you'd be tempted to think that everything he did seemed so effortless, that he was incapable of making a flawed record. That's partially true. Even his spontaneous jams with the equally spontaneous titles were damn good. But there's one thing that he dabbled in that wasn't JB tight. His instrumental records of the mid-late sixties feature him on keyboards, the Hammond B3 and piano. Not that they're bad records, actually what I've heard are really good. But the ordinary JB prowess is not quite there on the keys. His playing, while good, is not Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, or any other B3 playing Jimmy, good. That said, if you like oddball keyboard instrumentals, you could do much worse.
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Listen: James Brown - James Brown's Boo-Ga Loo mp3 at Beware of the Blog
James Brown - Jimmy Mack mp3 at Groove Addict
James Brown - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy mp3 at Groove Addict
James Brown - You Know It mp3 at Funky 16 Corners Go there to get it.
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