| features in: Album Chart of 1973 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s |
For the second J.B.’s album the twelve funkateers extraordinaire were: James Brown (lead vocal); Darryl ‘Hasaan’ Jamison (trumpet); Hearlon ‘Cheese’ Martin (guitar); Jimmy Nolen (guitar); Ike Oakley (trumpet); Maceo Parker (alto sax); St. Clair Pinckney (tenor sax); Jerone ‘Jasaan’ Sanford (trumpet); John ‘Jabo’ Starks (drums); Fred Thomas (bass); Fred Wesley (trombone) and Eldee Williams (tenor sax). Their brand of big band funk is often sheer dynamite, witnessed impeccably on the 10-minute-monster-epic, “Doing It To Death Parts 1 & 2”, which is relentlessly dynamic. Essentially, this LP consists of 5 extended pieces – my shockingly-low rating comes about as a result of the 3 filler segments which effectively sabotage the rating. “More Peas” is the second sizzler – another jam which sounds like a sure-fire dancefloor winner to me. The only extended piece which lets the album down is “Sucker”, an 8-minute ordeal which revels in progressive jazz forms which, although technically excellent, I find boring and irritating. Thankfully, “You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks And I’ll Be Straight” gets me back onside before the LP comes to a conclusion; it has a hand-clapping good-time jangle which is never uncool - and that comes from someone who would usually slope off through a side-exit as soon as hand-clapping good-time jangles were force-fed from the stage.
The Jukebox Rebel
13–May–2012
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [00:24]  The J.B.’s - Introduction To The J.B.’s (James Brown) Speech / Chat |
| A2 | [10:01]  The J.B.’s - Doing It To Death Parts 1 & 2 (James Brown) Disco / Funk |
| A3 | [00:14]  The J.B.’s - You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks And I’ll Be Straight [album excerpt 1] (James Brown) Disco / Funk |
| A4 | [08:27]  The J.B.’s - More Peas (James Brown) Disco / Funk |
| B1 | [05:39]  The J.B.’s - La Di Da La Di Day (James Brown) Disco / Funk |
| B2 | [00:14] The J.B.’s - You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks And I’ll Be Straight [album excerpt 2] (James Brown) Disco / Funk |
| B3 | [08:10] The J.B.’s - Sucker (James Brown) Jazz |
| B4 | [06:28]  The J.B.’s - You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks And I’ll Be Straight (James Brown) Disco / Funk |
