Friday, 1/7/11

This would be riveting even with the sound off.

James Brown, “I Got You (I Feel Good),” live (TV broadcast), c. 1965

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Like Lester Young and Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, James Brown floats over the bar lines, defying, as he dances, the gravitational pull of the downbeat.

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