Jerome Brailey Drums

Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey, Drummer Extraordinaire, Songwriter, and Producer. Jerome was inducted into the 1997 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his superior drumming capabilities with Parliament/Funkadelic. Not limited to the FUNK, Jerome also can get down with Rock, Blues, Soul, R&B, Metal, Pop, Jazz, Hip-Hop, and Rap. Jerome is currently available for live dates, sessions, overseas gigs, production work and would be an asset to any group, coming in with an extensive background, with impressive high profile credentials that include: "The Unifics" (The Court of Love), “The Five Stairsteps” (Ooh Child), “The Chambers Brothers”, “Parliament-Funkadelic”, "Bootsy Collins", “Quazar”, and “Mutiny” ( Jerome’s group), "James Blood Ulmer", "Bill Laswell" (Third Rail), "Buckethead" , "Jah Wobble", "Lucky Peterson" (Black Midnight Sun).
Other credits include: Platinum/Gold singles and albums for; “Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome”, “Ahh The Name Is Bootsy”, “Mothership Connection”, "The Clones of Dr.Funkenstein", "One Nation," "Flashlight", "Parliament-Funkadelic Earth Tour”, and “Tear The Roof Off The Sucker”. Also, the Golden Reel Award for "Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off).
Jerome’s session work includes: "The Chambers Brothers", "Parliament- Funkadelic (Bootsy Collins, The Parlets, Fuzzy Haskins, The Horny Horns, Eddie Hazel)".
Credits for Jerome’s production work include: "Tyka Nelson (Prince’ sister)", "Mello Bondz", "Quazar", and "Mutiny".
Television/Cable Commercials for “Tear The Roof Off The Sucker, Give Up The Funk”: "MasterCard 2007" and "Honda Odessy 2006-2007".
Movies that have included “Tear The Roof Off The Sucker”: “Click”, “Slums of Beverly Hills”, “Undercover Brothas”, and “Beauty Shop” and two songs from Jerome’s Mutiny Albums for “Cruising”.
The following articles describes just how important Jerome Bigfoot Brailey was to the famous beat of the Parliament-Funkadelic Funk sound, sampled by various mogul Hip-Hop and Rap artists.
- Context taken from Howard Priestley (CD Cover Artist...London, England)
"Without a doubt, one of the phenomenon’s of black music, has been the rise, fall and rise again of P-Funk. For all the musical inventiveness of Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell, neither could have made sense without the addition of a solid back-beat on which their colorful chords could be painted so vividly. We speak here of one "Jerome Brailey", the man who not only gave P-Funk and therefore rap, G-Funk and possibly B-Funk! some of it’s greatest rhythms but who also co-wrote the funk anthem "Tear The Roof Off The Sucker" from the now legendary "Mothership Connection".
- Context taken from the book..."FUNK" (by Rickey Vincent)
“The Mothership Connection LP was a motherlode of concepts and rhythm on a level never witnessed before. Lyrics spoke of "returning to claim the pyramids" and "Supergroovalistic-prosifunkstication." For what seemed like the first time ever, a popular black album succeeded with no ballads. Even James Brown’s album fillers contained at least one down-tempo song, but Mothership* was an entire funk record--the prototype of the Hip-Hop album of the 1990’s, in which every beat is a funk beat. Parliament-Funkadelic had pioneered this. The P-Funk beat, characterized by JEROME BIGFOOT BRAILEY’S intricate patterns surrounding his throbbing bass-drum kicks*”
- Context taken from The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Booklet 1997 (by Tom Vickers)
"Bootsy dropped the magic of the One on George and before you knew it, everything was on the One. With Parliament it was a more arranged One,while Funkadelic opted for a loopier groove. Both bands were now powered by drummer Jerome Brailey’s amazing foot and hand speed*"
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