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  Fred Wesley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fred Wesley (born 1943) is a jazz and funk trombonist.
Wesley toured with his colleagues from the James Brown band, Pee Wee Ellis and Maceo Parker as the JB Horns in the early nineties.
Wesley was featured trombonist with Maceo Parker until 1996 when he formed his own band, The Fred Wesley Group.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_Wesley   (309 words)

  
 Fred Wesley biography 02
Fred Wesley first became apparent on the world stage during his period with James Brown as band leader and then as front man for the J.B.'s.
Fred Wesley's funk playing is highly syncopated and particularly in the early days was full of variations on a number of established sixteenth note patterns.
The space that Wesley leaves at the beginning of each phrase and the fact that these phrases end on an off beat at the end of the bar could be in sympathy with the 'one'.
www.funky-stuff.com /Wesley/Bio02.htm   (1273 words)

  
 Angel - Season 5 - Episode 7
Fred goes to Wesley's office, arm in sling, to tell him she's okay and they are examining the cyborg.
Fred explains that there is a memory and if they can decode it, they may get a record of everything the cyborg has done.
Fred is ready to stay, but at this point Wesley tells her to leave with Knox.
www3.sympatico.ca /jenoff/angel507.htm   (3076 words)

  
 Fred Wesley Interview from 1991 :: New Funk Times :: George Clinton | Parliament | Funkadelic | P.Funk All-Stars | ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Fred Wesley: I don't remember the first time, no; but I have had the experience of saying: "I don't remember doing that!" Naturally at first I was upset, because when you hear yourself on something that's making a lot of money and you're not getting paid for it, then it causes concern.
Fred Wesley: That is a problem because you have these young executives and these record companies now that may or may not understand this.
Fred Wesley: I think one of the greatest reasons of his success is that he is never satisfied with himself, number one - he is always reaching for this new thing, he's gotta be better than everybody else.
www.newfunktimes.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=10   (3882 words)

  
 Fallen Angels: Wesley
Wesley wasn't looking to others for direction or praise, he just went out and did it because he had to 'fight the good fight' and not give up helping others when he could still do something to help them.
Wesley continues to look at Fred and wish that things were different, he even follows her through her published work in Physics, Supersymmetry (S4,Ep5).
Wesley sits in his apartment staring at the sun shining in through one of the windows.
www.javascrypt.com /fallenangels/fg-wesley.htm   (8272 words)

  
 Fred Wesley - Minor Music Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Fred Wesley, the exhilaratingly extrovert trombonist and vocalist from Mobile, Alabama, presents something of a problem to critics who like to tie specific labels on musicians, because his musical career, which spans nearly forty years, reflects a remarkable versatility.
Wesley was with the James Brown outfit from 1968 to 1970, then he left after a disagreement with Brown and moved with his family to California.
Fred Wesley latest album for Minor Music - his fourth - is Amalgamation, featuring Fred on trombone and vocals; Hugh Ragin on trumpet, fluegelhorn and vocals; Karl Denson on tenor, soprano, alto saxophones and vocals; Peter Madsen on piano, organ and keyboards; Dwayne Dolphin on bass and Bruce Cox on drums.
www.minormusic.de /Artists/fred_wesley.html   (1994 words)

  
 The Bunker
Fred decides to stay in the lab to fix the device, Wesley walks over to Fred and says he’ll stay as well (he wants to be near her).
Fred jumps in to help defend Wesley, as Wesley tells Angel he was the one who accidentally tripped the bomb mechanism.
Wesley looks at Fred and tells her that he was sure that it was his real father, there is sadness in Fred’s eyes.
www.thebunker.sphosting.com /meants/601-700.html   (2027 words)

  
 Welcome To Fred Wesley Online
Wesley has written a thoroughly engaging memoir of his life in music, using frank, opinion at¬ed, sometimes colorful language that reads as if he were sitting across the room reminiscing.
In his autobiography, "Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman," Fred Wesley Jr., trombonist extraordinaire, architect of the infectious grooves that defined the James Brown sound and self-confessed jazz snob (specifically, "bebop snob"), relates his lifelong struggle with this dilemma.
Much of "Hit Me, Fred" takes us into the darker realm of the sideman's world, the drug abuse and sexual excess that served as a means of escape from the pain of life on the road.
www.fredwesley.com /book.html   (1331 words)

  
 Fred Wesley
From 1968 through 1975, Wesley was music director, arranger, trombonist and a primary composer for Brown's band, helping to create a brand of funk that he helped take to a new level upon joining forces with George Clinton and Bootsy Collins in 1975.
Fred toured with his colleagues from the James Brown Band, Pee Wee Ellis and Maceo Parker as the JB Horns in the early nineties.
Fred's 35-year career includes playing with and arranging for a wide variety of other artist such as Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, Randy Crawford, Vanessa Williams, The SOS Band, Cameo and rappers De La Soul, to name a few.
www.fredsociety.com /wesley.html   (326 words)

  
 Trombone Page of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
From 1968 through 1975, Wesley was music director, arranger, trombonist and a primary composer for Brown's band, helping to create a funky sound that's heard in much of today's popular music.
Wesley's 40-year career includes playing with, producing and arranging for a wide variety of other artists such as Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, Randy Crawford, Vanessa Williams, The SOS Band, Cameo and rappers De La Soul, to name a few.
The reinvented Fred Wesley is called upon frequently as a performer, arranger, producer, musicologist and consultant.
www.trombone-usa.com /wesley_fred.htm   (514 words)

  
 Jazz | All About Jazz
Fred is one of the greatest writers and arrangers of funk music on planet earth and from the very beginning he has been an integral part in defining the funk sound.
Along with Pee Wee Ellis and Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley was a member of the original JB's, one of the most incredible funky horn sections of all time.
For the past ten years Fred has been working again with Maceo and Pee Wee but also has formed his own band, which I feel, honored to be a member of.
www.allaboutjazz.com /articles/wojb1299.htm   (514 words)

  
 Regression [13/?]/PG-13 - (Illyria/Fred/Wesley)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Wesley's father allowed himself to be seated, though impatiently.
She knew both Lorne and Connor would disapprove, but numerous aspects were encouraging her to hurt this human, as she had hurt, as she had known Wesley had hurt on many occasions when dealing with his father.
They treated Wesley badly, you know." "Regardless of how they had treated him," she replied, "it is what Wesley would have done." He sighed, and Connor sensed that Illyria had just made her case.
www.seriousliving.net /new-2929778-1072.html   (2831 words)

  
 NPR : Fred Wesley: 'Recollections of a Sideman'
NPR : Fred Wesley: 'Recollections of a Sideman'
Wesley playing his trombone to demonstrate a musical style during his interview at NPR.
In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Wesley recalls the twists and turns of a long and storied career, which he explores in an autobiography called Hit Me, Fred, and subtitled "Recollections of a Sideman." And Wesley brings along his trombone to illustrate the music he was playing at different points in his career.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=931841   (498 words)

  
 Detailed info on Fred Wesley's _Amalgamation_   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
RC: Unlike most of Fred Wesley's albums, this one has more of a funky feel to it, and less of a jazz presence.
While not quite as funky as the original, Fred's trombone solo is a definite highlight.
All-in-all, this is album is the closest thing to funk that Fred Wesley has done as a solo artist.
www.duke.edu /~tmc/motherpage/albums_noncore/alb-wesley_amalgamation.html   (356 words)

  
 Blue Moon Rising: Fanfic: Vampire Song: "Uninvited" by Lara
Wesley’s words before I had passed out rang clearly in my head.
Meanwhile, Wesley had lost his for trying to save Angel and Connor from pain and death, driving him to become something he had spent his life destroying.
Wesley had held me in his arms the entire time, whispering to me that it would be all right.
bluemoon.darling-moon.com /fic/lara/uninvited.htm   (2736 words)

  
 Fred Wesley biography 01
Fred Wesley was born on 4 July 1943 and grew up in Mobile Alabama.
So in 1967 Fred began playing with James Brown on a fixed salary rather than gig money and because he was playing virtually every night there was little chance to practise jazz.
Fred was pivotal with his funky horn arrangements as well as his clean trombone sound.
www.funky-stuff.com /wesley/Bio01.htm   (1574 words)

  
 Amalgamation by Fred Wesley
Fred Wesley is another musician who has demonstrated how compatible jazz and funk/soul can be.
In fact, the two complement one another beautifully on Amalgamation, a German release that unites the trombonist with trumpeter Hugh Ragin, saxman Karl Denson, keyboardist/organist Peter Madsen, bassist Dwayne Dolphin, and drummer Bruce Cox.
The CD detours into Afro-Caribbean territory on the festive "My Neighborhood," while Wesley's romantic side asserts itself on Wham's "Careless Whisper." When Wesley was backing the James Brown, he had to do things Brown's way, but on this 1994 date, he maintains the driver's seat with engaging results.
www.mp3.com /albums/188303/summary.html   (266 words)

  
 A Whole New World
This is supposed to be about her, about taking something into herself that feeds the darkness Charles tries to beat back.
She wants to hate both of them, Wesley and Charles, in alternate turns for letting her indulge her flness and for denying her the right to it.
Wesley helped you do what you felt you had to.
www.satans-toady.net /wnw/supernova.html   (1226 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Beat the devil
Trombonist Fred Wesley, one of Brown's most distinguished musicians, described much of his boss's excessively suspicious side, and its vicious consequences, in his recent autobiography.
Wesley depicted him as a control freak and manipulator whose relationships with men, but particularly women, were tinged with either the threat of violence or violence itself.
In Soul Survivor, Brown's former girlfriend and singing protégée Lyn Collins admits: 'There was an anger that was not understood.' Of his control freakery, she says: 'I had a hot line to my house.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1150917,00.html   (1993 words)

  
 Abebooks Search Results - Wesley Fred Jr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
A legendary funk, soul and jazz musician, Wesley is best known for his work in the late 60s and early 70s with James Brown and his band.
Wesley helped make funk music funkier and his distinctive sound reverberates through rap and hip hop music today.
A legendary funk, soul, and jazz musician, Wesley is best known for his work in the late sixties and early seventies with James Brown and as leader of Brown's band, Fred Wesley and the JB's.
textbook-authors.abebooks.com /Author/1235579/Wesley+Fred+Jr.html   (1343 words)

  
 Defending the General - The New Yorker's unfair slam on Wes Clark and his role in the Kosovo war. By Fred Kaplan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
I don't know whether Gen. Wesley Clark is qualified to be president, but Peter J. Boyer's profile in this week's New Yorker —which paints him as scarily unqualified—is an unfair portrait as well as a misleading, occasionally inaccurate précis of the 1999 Kosovo war and Clark's role in commanding it.
Boyer obviously talked with him in the course of researching the story, but the case against Clark—while there very well may be one—remains unmade.
The officers in question, the MANY of them, are not the only ones to make this judgment.
slate.msn.com /id/2091194   (1838 words)

  
 fred_wesley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
From his beginnings in his father’s living room, to traveling the world as leader of James Brown’s band, Fred Wesley has led a life as rich as he is talented.
Music is the best source of information about Fred Wesley, including ringtones, bio, radio, discography, similar artists, reviews, community, fans, websites, and more Fred Wesley bio radio...
Fred Wesley - Musician, Composer, Arranger, Writer, Author July 4, 1943 Best known for his work with James Brown and the JBs, Fred Wesley has built his career in funk and jazz.
fred_wesley.networklive.org   (418 words)

  
 January 2002 Archives - Page 9
Both Fred and Wesley are clearly widely read, and both seem to have enough academic training that they would know where to look for general information on most subjects.
Fred and Wesley are both voracious readers, curious about anything and everything under the sun, and probably have genius level IQ's.
So Fred is either still living in her cave or she had her poor head chopped off.
www.atpobtvs.com /existentialscoobies/archives/jan02_p09.html   (18290 words)

  
 Fred Wesley
Fred Wesley : The Importance of a Groove "Wuda, Cuda, Shuda"
Fred Wesley talks about his recently released record album Wuda Cuda Shuda recorded in a studio in the outskirts of Paris for his own label Hip Bop Records.
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www.culturekiosque.com /jazz/portrait/fredwesley.html   (238 words)

  
 Andrea by Fred Wesley: Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Fred Wesley : Albums : Wuda Cuda Shuda : Andrea : Reviews
Recorded during a European tour in the fall of 2002, Fred Wesley's Wuda Cuda Shuda is a typical collection of funk tunes from the trombone-playing bandleader who is a former member of James Brown's JB's and George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic.
Anyone who has heard Wesley's horn work in those former associations will know what to expect here in music that retains the funky rhythms (courtesy of drummer Bruce Cox and bass player Michael Mondesir) in a somewhat more stripped-down form than...
www.mp3.com /tracks/4875657/reviews.html   (140 words)

  
 The J.B.'s
1973: Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s - Doin´ It To Death (People - PE5603)
1975: Fred Wesley & The New J.B.s - Thank You For Lettin' Me Be Myself And Be Yours Pts 1&2 (People - PE654)
1975: Fred Wesley & The New J.B.s - (It's Not The Express) It's The J.B.s Monaurail Pts 1&2 (People - PE655)
www.bassics.de /jbs.html   (575 words)

  
 Now-N-Then Forums - Fred & Wesley
I hated when fred died it was a huge disapionment I love Illyria but I really wanted Fred to stay.
I didn't like Fred with Gunn cause I was hoping she would be with wes.
I love Fred and Wes.They might of had a short relationship but, their perfect together.I never liked Fred with Gunn.
www.now-n-then.net /forum/showthread.php?t=723   (309 words)

  
 eBay - fred wesley, Records, CDs, Music items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Clair Pinckney LP James Brown Fred Wesley  
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