The Brooklyn Bronx & Queens Band

The Profile

A studio project created by the production team Jacques Fred Petrus and Mauro Malavasi, assembling American vocalists and Italian musicians; best known for the 1981 debut album produced on the Italian label Goody Music.

Debut album 'The B.B. & Q. Band' released 1981 (review cites). Producers Jacques Fred Petrus and Mauro Malavasi; recorded at Fonoprint studios in Bologna (review cites). Single 'On the Beat' reached #8 on Billboard charts (review cites). Bassist Davide Romani contributed fretless slap bass (review cites). The Goody Music label later folded after Petrus's death in 1986 (review cites).

A passionate DeBaser review celebrates The B.B.& Q. Band's 1981 debut as a near-perfect fusion of disco, funk, R&B and soul. The reviewer highlights "On the Beat" and "Time for Love" as standout tracks and praises the Italian production team Petrus/Malavasi. The album is noted as rare and collectible. The review situates the project within the early-1980s Italian-produced disco scene.