Doing It to Death cover

Doing It to Death

Released

This all-time classic from James Brown’s band The JBs, their third full-length outing, sees them at their leanest and most efficient, each musical part precisely placed in a churning funk mechanism. Includes ten effusive minutes of ‘Doing It To Death’, its celebratory tone due to the return of sax player Maceo from his All The Kings Men project. Aside from short interludes you only get four tracks but that’s because they’re all lengthy, elongated jams full of brassy soloing, showcasing that locked-in-one-chord loop funk that the JBs did so well. 

Harold Heath

Recommended by

Suggestions
Out on the Coast cover

Out on the Coast

The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble
Back to the World cover

Back to the World

Curtis Mayfield
Sextet cover

Sextet

A Certain Ratio
Tradition in Transition cover

Tradition in Transition

Quantic & His Combo Bárbaro
Upfront cover

Upfront

David Sanborn
It's Just Begun cover

It's Just Begun

The Jimmy Castor Bunch
Adult Themes cover

Adult Themes

El Michels Affair