The J.B.'s

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backing band funk band musical ensemble

The J.B.'s were James Brown’s legendary funk backing band, renowned for their tight grooves and major influence on the development of funk music in the late 1960s and 1970s.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
The J.B.'s canonical	9
JB's	1
The J.B.’s	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	backing band ⓘ funk band ⓘ musical ensemble ⓘ
activeStart	1970 ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	The James Brown Band ⓘ surface form: Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s The J.B.'s ⓘ surface form: JB's
associatedAct	Bootsy Collins ⓘ Fred Wesley ⓘ James Brown ⓘ Parliament-Funkadelic ⓘ The James Brown Band ⓘ
backedArtist	James Brown ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
era	1970s ⓘ late 1960s ⓘ
foundedBy	James Brown ⓘ
genre	R&B ⓘ funk ⓘ soul ⓘ
influencedGenre	funk ⓘ hip hop ⓘ
notableCharacteristic	prominent horn arrangements ⓘ syncopated rhythm section ⓘ
notableFor	influence on funk music ⓘ tight funk grooves ⓘ
notableMember	Bobby Byrd ⓘ Bootsy Collins ⓘ Catfish Collins ⓘ Clyde Stubblefield ⓘ Fred Wesley ⓘ Jabo Starks ⓘ Maceo Parker ⓘ
notableSongType	instrumental funk tracks ⓘ
notableWork	Breakin' Bread ⓘ Damn Right I Am Somebody ⓘ Doing It to Death ⓘ Food for Thought ⓘ Gimme Some More ⓘ Hot Pants Road ⓘ Pass the Peas ⓘ The Grunt ⓘ These Are the J.B.'s ⓘ
primaryInstrumentalFocus	horn section ⓘ rhythm section ⓘ
recordLabel	People Records ⓘ Polydor Records ⓘ
role	backing band for James Brown ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

James Brown → associatedAct → The J.B.'s ⓘ

Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine → performedByBackingBand → The J.B.'s ⓘ

Super Bad → performer → The J.B.'s ⓘ

Sex Machine → featuresArtist → The J.B.'s ⓘ

Sex Machine → backingBand → The J.B.'s ⓘ

The Payback → featuresPerformer → The J.B.'s ⓘ

The J.B.'s → alsoKnownAs → The J.B.'s ⓘ

this entity surface form: JB's

Lyn Collins → associatedAct → The J.B.'s ⓘ

Bobby Byrd → associatedAct → The J.B.'s ⓘ

this entity surface form: The J.B.’s

Papa Don't Take No Mess → associatedAct → The J.B.'s ⓘ

Bootsy Collins → memberOf → The J.B.'s ⓘ