The last of these issues came to the fore with the title track, which was presented to Gaye by a band he was producing. He took the basic elements, reworked the melody and came up with a classic.

After James Jamerson laid down all those funky bass lines in Detroit, helping to create 56 No. 1 R&B hits and 23 No. 1 pop hits, making Motown into a cultural juggernaut, popular music never has been ...

The setting is Studio A at Universal Mastering Studios East, in midtown Manhattan. Sitting at opposite ends of the board are Anthony Jackson and James Jamerson Jr., the world's foremost authorities on ...

There are plenty of unsung heroes in music — producers, engineers, record company executives, songwriters, session players — but James Jamerson has to be one of the most overlooked unsung heroes in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Cannon Street Arts Center is holding a bass symposium to honor the life and music of James ...

Legendary Motown bassist James Jamerson would have turned 79 years old today. The Funk Brother was born Jan. 29, 1936, in South Carolina and died in Aug. 2, 1983, in Los Angeles. In honor of the man ...

He grew up in the studio watching his dad play bass in the legendary Funk Brothers, the Motown house band illuminated in the 2002 documentary “Standing in the Shadows of Motown.” Eventually, James ...

Anyone who's danced to Motown classics like "Shotgun" and "You Can't Hurry Love" has heard the work of bassist James Jamerson. Born in Charleston in 1936, Jamerson moved to Detroit as a teen and began ...