James Brown

For ten years between 1965 and 1975, James Brown was the most popular and cutting-edge of any black artist. As one journalist put it,before Brown, there was music with a beat. After Brown music had found a groove.The drawing out of thisgroove,leveraged onthe one,- or the first and third beats of a 4/4 bar, - would provide the key to much of Brown's subsequent musical success and instil within popular music an unprecedented drive that would characterize not only the funk style, but also prov...