Nat Jones

How many times have you sung 'I feel good, like I knew I would' by the great James Brown?
Did you know it was musically arranged by a Washington, NC PS Jones High School Band teacher named Nat Jones?

When James Brown And The Fabulous Flames introduced 'I Feel Good', in 1966 on Ed Sullivan's sensational variety show, Mr. Jones played that amazing saxophone solo.
However, in the first original recording of the song in 1964, Mr. Jones played the Hammond organ.

Nat Jones was the band teacher at P S Jones high school from 1961-1964. He auditioned for Brown in the spring of 1964 and became Brown's music director and music arranger from 1964-1967. He wrote 34 songs in that time with Brown and recorded songs like, 'This Is A Man's-Woman's World' part 1 and 2 in 1966 featuring singer Irma Thomas.
'Money Won't Change You' (the record pictured below) which was a hit in 1966 and, 'Do You Really want To Rescue Me?' in 1966.
Mr. Jones and James Brown also briefly had a music company named "Najam", using the first few letters in their first names to give a name to the company. Mr. Jones was one of the founding members of James Brown And The Fabulous Flames. He died in 2014 in Kinston NC