the empire of music James Brown

During this period, the empire of music Brown also extended along its influence on the music scene. As the empire of music Brown grew up, his desire for independence and increased financial and artistic. Brown bought radio stations in the 1960s, including radio station WRDW in Augusta, Georgia where he shined shoes as a boy. Brown has also expanded its activities to recordings with several musicians outside his own group. He noted Gettin 'Down To It (1969) and Soul on Top (1970), two albums consisting mostly of romantic ballads and jazz standards with Dee Felice Trio and the Louie Bellson Orchestra respectively. He recorded several songs with Dapper, a band of white Cincinnati bar, including the hit "I Can not Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)". He also released three albums of Christmas music with his own group.

The 1970 s and J.B. "
In 1970, most members of the 1960s, the classic James Brown band had quit his act for other opportunities, and the famous singing group had disbanded Flames, Bobby Byrd the only original member still with Brown. Brown and Byrd employed a new band that included future funk large, such as bassist Bootsy Collins, Collins, guitarist brother Phelps "Catfish" Collins and trombonist and musical director Fred Wesley. This new backing band was dubbed "The JB's", and the group debuted in 1970 Brown's single "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine". Although The JB's has experienced some changes in training, with the first change came in 1971, the band remained Brown Band support the most famous.
In 1971, Brown began recording for Polydor Records which also took over distribution of Brown's King Records catalog. Sidemen many support players such as Fred Wesley & The JB's Bobby Byrd, Lyn Collins, Vicki Anderson and Hank Ballard, released records on Peoplelabel, a path which was founded by Brown that was purchased by Polydor as part of Brown's new contract. The registration on the label people, almost all produced by Brown himself, the example is the "house style". Songs like "I Know You Got Soul" by Bobby Byrd, "Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins and "Doing It to Death" by Fred Wesley & JB's considered part of the legacy of Brown is registered as a CD released under his own name.
In 1973, Brown provided the score for the blaxploitation film Black Caesar. In 1974 he touredAfrica and performed in Zaire as part of the buildup to the Rumble in the Jungle betweenMuhammad cons Ali and George Foreman. Admirer of Brown's music, including Miles Davis and other jazz musicians began to cite Brown as a major influence on their own style. But Brown, like others that are influenced by the music, also "borrowed" from other musicians. His 1976 single "Hot" (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved) "(R & B # 31) borrowed the main rifffrom" Fame "by David Bowie, and not vice versa as is often believed . Riff is attributed to cooperation "Fame"-writers John Lennon and Bowie by guitarist Carlos Alomar, who joined Brown's band in the late 1960s.
Brown's Polydor recordings during the 1970s reflects innovation twenty years earlier. Compositions like "The Payback" (1973), "Papa Do not Take No Mess", "Stoned to the Bone" and "Funky President (People It's Bad)" (1974), and "Get Up Offa That Thing "(1976) included among the most remarkable records in this.
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