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.