Maceo Parker Was Born On February 14, 1943

"Maceo, I want you to Blow!" - James Brown

From amazon.com:

MACEO PARKER s concerts with the WDR Big Band Cologne directed by Michael Abene count among the highlights of the Festival Season 2008 in Europe.

Be it in Nice, Rotterdam at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Madrid, Barcelona, Leverkusen or Berlin, audiences were enthralled in sold-out shows where the Master of Funk presented a most unusual programme: a musical TRIBUTE TO RAY CHARLES .

Line Up:
Maceo Parker (sax and vocals) w/ WDR Big Band Cologne, arranged and conducted by Michael Abene Live in Leverkusen 2008

Tracklistiing:
TONK, THEM THAT'S GOT, BUSTED, I GOT A WOMAN, YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE, YOU DON'T KNOW ME, MARY ANN, GEORGIA ON MY MIND, Anouncement MICHAEL ABENE, HALLELUJAH I LOVE HER SO Announcement Maceo Parker, What I'D SAY

Westdeutscher Rundfunk:

Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR, West German Broadcasting Cologne) is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, ARD. As well as contributing to the output of the national television channel Das Erste, WDR produces the regional television service WDR Fernsehen (formerly known as WDF and West3) and six regional radio networks.

Maceo Parker:

Maceo Parker; born February 14, 1943) is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of Brown's hit recordings, and a key part of his band, playing alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. Since the early 1990s, he has toured under his own name.

He sings too, and sounds a little like Ray Charles. The WDR band is excellent, isn't it?

"Hallelujah I Love Her So" is fantastic, what an awesome organ solo!!!