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The Big Payback

February 1, 2007 by: Marc Stone

Partly in tribute to the recently departed Godfather of Soul, James Brown, and partly in celebration of the city that gave America its soul, trombonist Fred Wesley will team up with Meters’ bassist George Porter, Jr. and drummer Johnny Vidacovich on Friday, February 2nd at Tipitina’s. Wesley—whose decades of playing with Brown, the JBs and associated groups produced some of the most widely heard and imitate...

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