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James Lee Jamerson (January 29, 1936 – August 2, 1983) [1] [a] was an American bassist.He was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s (Motown did not list session musician credits on their releases until 1971), and is now regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bass players in modern music history.
Jamerson Jr. was born in Detroit to legendary session bass player James Jamerson, a cornerstone member of Motown's famed house band, The Funk Brothers. [2] In the early 1970s, Jamerson, Jr. became an in-demand session bassist. In the next three decades he played on the studio albums by Janet Jackson, Smokey Robinson, and Aretha Franklin, to ...
The Funk Brothers recorded and performed on Motown's recordings from 1959 to 1972. [1] The film was inspired by the 1989 book Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson, a bass guitar instruction book by Allan Slutsky, which features a biography of James Jamerson along with his bass lines.
That same year, the Funk Brothers' surviving members recorded Live in Orlando, an album and video. In 2010, surviving members of the Funk Brothers accompanied Phil Collins on his Motown covers album, Going Back, and appear in the live Going Back concert DVD. In 2010, the Funk Brothers were voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of ...
Design, the 1957-Precision and the "Funk Machine" are already properly sourced in the article. The third instrument is most likely this: Link 1, Link 2, a 1961-Precision auctioned in 2017 for $68,750. Jamerson had it until around 1968, then he gave it to bassist Billy Hayes. It looks similar to the "Funk Machine".
James Jamerson (session musician for Motown Records) [32] used a sunburst 1962 Precision Bass nicknamed the "Funk Machine" on most sessions during the mid-1960s and up until his death. Carol Kaye (session musician, part of the Wrecking Crew ) played Fender Precision on the majority of her sessions, but after 1978 her favorite electric bass was ...
An archival photo of late Motown funk legend Rick James (R) with his daughter, Ty James. Ty is executive producer of "Super Freak: The Rick James Story," a new stage musical coming to Detroit's ...
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever is a 1983 television special, produced by Suzanne de Passe for Motown (founded in January 1959), to commemorate its 25th anniversary. The program was taped before a live audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983, [1] and broadcast on NBC on May 16.