It’s 6:15pm on Friday April 21, 2006 and I’m heading off to do three shows in the next five hours. The last two will be us performing “In the Jungle Groove” with The Gomers, featuring the Original Funky Drummer, Clyde Stubblefield and our horns section.

Clyde recorded this album with James Brown about 35 years ago. The grooves on this album are familiar because you’ve heard dozens of other artist’s sample the grooves, shouts, grunts and horn stabs that these songs deliver.

I’m so excited to be a part of this recreation tonight, not once, but twice (at 8 and 11)!

Cheers,
Bryan

AxelGNoel (aka Alex on trombone) provided folks with a link to a streaming audio clip of Michael Feldman’s NPR show, “Whad’Ya Know?” where Clyde teaches folks what funk is all about. Check it out.

Also, could we get a big applause for Alex and his major contribution to transcribing the horn lines for “In the Jungle Groove”? He took my penciled versions for the first two tunes and entered them into Sibelius, producing nice, easy-to-read versions for the rest of us. And then while I was on vacation, he went on to finish transcribing the parts for the remaining seven songs. He’s that good, ladies and gentleman! Muchos gracias!