Cold Sweat Plays J. B.

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Cold Sweat Plays J. B.
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Studio album by
Released1989
RecordedNovember 1988
Studio Mediasound, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length40:37
Label JMT
JMT 834 426
Producer Stefan F. Winter
Craig Harris chronology
Blackout in the Square Root of Soul
(1988)
Cold Sweat Plays J. B.
(1989)
4 Play
(1991)

Cold Sweat Plays J. B. is an album by trombonist Craig Harris' tribute band Cold Sweat performing compositions by James Brown which was recorded in 1988 and released on the JMT label. [1]

Contents

Reception

The AllMusic review by Ron Wynn called it "As fine an example of applying improvisational élan to R&B/soul idiom as you can find in the 80s". [2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Track listing

All compositions by James Brown except as indicated

  1. "Brown's Prance" (Craig Harris) – 0:52
  2. "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" (Charles Bobbit) – 6:52
  3. "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" (Brown, Betty Jean Newsome) – 6:51
  4. "I Got the Feelin'" – 0:17
  5. "Brown's Dance" (Harris) – 3:45
  6. "Showtime Medley:" – (6:26)
    1. "Funky Good Time – 1:45
    2. "I Got the Feelin'" – 0:17
    3. "I Can't Stand It" – 0:56
    4. "Licking Stick" (Brown, Bobby Byrd, Alfred Ellis) – 0:40
    5. "There Was a Time" (Brown, Buddy Hopgood) – 6:26
  7. "Please, Please, Please" (Brown, Johnny Terry) – 4:38
  8. "Try Me" – 3:41
  9. "Cold Sweat" (Brown, Ellis) – 7:25

Personnel

Guests:

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References

  1. Craig S. Harris discography, accessed September 30, 2014
  2. 1 2 Wynn, R., Allmusic Review accessed September 30, 2014