The Godfather and the Queen of Soul pleasing each other

Aretha Franklin and James Brown please each other - 1987

Please, Please Please

25 years aboard the Night Train: tracing the roots of a riff

25 years aboard the Night Train or tracing the roots of a riff. 

James Brown in a tour de force performance of Man's World - 1967

This towering performance by James Brown, filmed in 1967 while he was at the absolute peak of his powers, is all that it is needed to prove that very, very few performers* have ever matched his sheer daring and bravura on stage as well as the complete confidence in his ability to captivate any audience.

* I count 2; JB and Broooce!

James Brown & Luciano Pavarotti once shared a stage

On the new dawn of a new day in a new year in this man’s world,where James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti once shared a stage to honor women and girls, how can one not believe in miracles?

Beyond the mutual respect JB and the Big Opera Guy apparently shared for one another as musicians, however far I let my imagination wander, I cannot conceive of what they did or said to one another off stage although, whatever it was, I bet they did it to grand excess.