LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Motown drummer Uriel Jones, whose hard-driving funk propelled classic tunes by the Temptations and Marvin Gaye, died in a Michigan hospital on Tuesday after suffering ...
It is difficult to think of a more impossible task than attempting to rate the 60 all-time greatest Motown songs. Founded in 1959 by Berry Gordy, not only has the label — originally a small ...
DETROIT (AP) - A drummer with a passion for the "Motown Sound" and experience working with many of its artists has released a benefit record for a guitarist with the Funk Brothers, the label's house ...
DETROIT, MI (WTOL) - Motown music icons, The Contours, who are best known for their 1962 hit "Do You Love Me," have added Julian Pavone, "The World's Youngest Drummer" to their group. Pavone will be ...
PHOENIX — By the time he moved to Phoenix in the ’80s, Jerome Teasley had played drums for such iconic figures in the history of soul and R&B as Wilson Pickett, Al Green, Ike and Tina Turner and ...
Besides pounding on drums for the bulk of their lives, music author Jake Brown got to wondering about the other common threads shared by some of rock music’s all-time great drummers. Brown, who got to ...
The Great Neck Library is hosting a Sunday musical performance at the Main Library at 159 Bayview Ave. in Great Neck on Sunday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. Deverne Williams is the frontman of the exciting ...
Uriel Jones, a drummer whose versatile, passionate beat fueled classic Motown hits by the Temptations, Four Tops and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, has died following complications from a heart ...