A Tribute to Mobile Jazz Legends
The Gulf City Lodge (601 State St. – map)
6pm – 10pm

Lil Greenwood – Former Duke Ellington vocalist

Fred Wesley Jr. – Former James Brown bandleader
Wesley also played with Ike & Tina Turner, George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic, the Count Basie Orchestra, and the Horny Horns and the J.B.’s (with Maceo Parker & Pee Wee Ellis).

John “Jabo” Starks – Former James Brown drummer

Joe Lewis
(performed with Millie Jackson, Redd Foxx, the Manhattans, the Dramatics and others)

Theodore Arthur
(played with Bobby Blue Bland, Johnnie Taylor, Aretha Franklin)
 

Hubert Stanfield
Charles Lott
and The Friends of the E. B. Coleman Orchestra

There are many once-in-a-lifetime events – but this is truly one for students of Mobile’s music.

Mobile’s Fred Wesley interviewed for the 2009 documentary “Soul Power” about his time as James Brown’s bandleader and afterwards: