Funky Music Machine

This second solo album from saxophone player Maceo Parker and several JBs following their walk-out on the Godfather in 1970 features a quality collection of vocal and instrumental funk, jazz, blues and ballads with a broader musical palette and a sunnier disposition than Maceo’s work with Brown. Parker says in his autobiography that the Kingsmen were never successful because Brown paid DJs to not play the record and got promoters to take down posters for their gigs, which might explain why such an expertly played and arranged record with such a nice breadth of material isn’t better known.