Ravenna Festival
Black is beautiful
A Funky Celebration
A Funky Celebration
Maceo Parker voce, sassofono, flauto
Ron Tooley tromba
Dennis Rollins trombone
Will Boulware tastiere
Bruno Speight chitarra
Rodney “Skeet” Curtis basso
Jamal Thomas batteria
Corey Parker voce
Neta Hall voce
Fred Wesley trombone
Bruce Cox percussioni
Dwayne Dolphin basso
Peter Madsen pianoforte e tastiere
Reggie Ward chitarra
Chris Andrews sassofono
Gary Winters tromba
If funk were a person, a celebration by somebody who has dedicated his whole life and soul to it would be a great honour. Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley have been proving this very kind of devotion for almost fifty years. And if their starting point was undoubtedly James Brown, the godfather of funk with whom the two can boast collaboration, it is also true that Brown himself was in turn influenced by Wesley’s trombone and Parker’s baritone saxophone, when he hollered his refrain «Maceo! Blow your horn!». But besides “Sex machine” Brown, these names are now synonyms of funk, together with some others who made the history of the genre: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Pee Wee Ellis down to Prince.
