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Live at Chastain Park

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Released
  
1988 (1988)

Length
  
57:25

Release date
  
1988

Genre
  
Funk

Recorded
  
1985

Artist
  
James Brown

Label
  
Charly Groove

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Venue
  
Chastain Park, Atlanta, GA

Live at Chastain Park (1988)
  
Soul Session Live (1989)

Similar
  
James Brown albums, Funk albums

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Live at Chastain Park is a live album recorded by James Brown in 1985 at the titular city park in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally released in the UK and Europe in 1988 by Charly Records, it has been reissued numerous times on budget labels. The concert was also filmed and has been issued on DVD by Charly (on the 2008 release Double Dynamite) and other companies. Maceo Parker is featured on saxophone.

Contents

In 2006 the Music Avenue label released a two-CD version of the album containing additional outtakes from the concert along with a selection of remixes.

Personnel

  • James Brown – vocals
  • Ron Laster – guitar
  • Tony Jones – guitar
  • Jimmy Lee Moore – bass
  • Larry Moore – keyboards
  • Arthur Dickson – drums
  • Tony Cook – drums
  • Johnny Griggs – percussion, congas
  • Maceo Parker – alto saxophone
  • St. Clair Pinckney – tenor saxophone
  • Joe Collier – trumpet
  • George "Haji Ahkba" Dickerson – flugelhorn
  • Martha High – background vocals
  • "Sweet" Charles Sherrell – keyboards, band director

    • Songs

    1Introduction / Give It Up - Turn It Loose1:55
    2It's Too Funky in Here5:03
    3Doing It to Death4:02

    References

    Live at Chastain Park Wikipedia
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