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Trombonist Fred Wesley, saxophonist Maceo Parker, and trumpeters Richard “Kush” Griffith and Rick Gardner comprised Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns, among the many Parliament/Funkadelic spin-offs that George Clinton caused in the past due ’70s. In the past, the Horny Horns had been Parliament/Funkadelic’s horn section plus they also supported …

Because the longtime music director for soul star Adam Brown’s renowned backing unit the J.B.’s, trombonist Fred Wesley was the world’s most well-known sideman, orchestrating the sinuous grooves and contributing the vibrant, surgically precise solos that described the vocabulary of funk. Delivered July 4, 1943, in Columbus, GA, Wesley grew …