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In December 1970 trombonist Fred Wesley rejoined James Brown's organization to lead the J.B.'s. Other former Brown sidemen including Maceo Parker and St. Clair Pinckney eventually followed his lead, while the Collins brothers and most of the rest of the "original" J.B.'s left Brown to join George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective. The J.B.'s lineup shifted frequently thereafter, and the group that had been the J.B.'s essentially disbanded following the departures of Wesley and Parker in 1976.