Breakin’ Bread

It’s an irony of the best funk music that its loose and relaxed feel is achieved through extreme precision in the playing. This 1974 James Brown produced set is eight tracks of pure, relentless funk, from a band flawlessly locked in, their intricate interweaving cross-rhythms all perfectly functioning together like a precision-tooled piece of musical engineering, all graced with Wesley’s trombone and vocals from the band. The slightly out-there jazz of ‘Step Child’ provides a suitably exuberant finish to an expertly executed funk project.