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| | Chuck Rainey |
 | | In August 1999, James Jamerson was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame for his legendary bass line artistry in contributing to Motown Records' endless hit record successes in the music evolution of the 60's. | | | When speaking and/or writing about that 'day in time' (the 60's musical revelations), James Jamerson and Pop music are as synonymous to music legend as Little Richard and Chuck Berry are to Rock n Roll, and as are The 5 Keys and The Moonglows are to doo-wop singing. | | | Motown's history and success is chronicled over and over by those who were there with him at the time of the actual recordings, those who have successful listening and or hearing skills and those with an ability to hear the difference between the sound, style and feel of different players. |
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| | The Funk Brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Jamerson died in 1983, Brown in 1984, Van Dyke in 1992, White in 1994, and Allen and Griffith in 2002. | | | Early members included bandleader Joe Hunter and Earl Van Dyke (piano); James Jamerson (bass guitar); William "Benny" Benjamin and Richard "Pistol" Allen (drums); Robert White, Eddie Willis, and Joe Messina (guitar); Jack Ashford (tambourine, percussion, vibes, Marimba); Jack Brokensha (vibes, Marimba);and Eddie 'Bongo' Brown (percussion). | | | Most members were black; Joe Messina, Jack Brokensha, Bob Babbitt, and Dennis Coffey, who introduced the wah-wah guitar pedal sound that defined Motown's psychedelic soul records, were white. |
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| | Rolling Stone Sep 29 1983 |
| | But Jamerson was one of the greatest and most influential musicians of our time, and it's safe to say that his sound and soul will always be with us, because the great Motown records of the Sixties will be listened to and appreciated for as long as there is a vibrant American musical culture. | | | During the Fifties, electric basses were not considered legitimate instruments by most producers and studio players; the most common approach was to record an acoustic bass to anchor the bottom of the sound, then have someone, usually a guitarist, add electric bass-string lines for percussive and melodic supplementation. | | | On these records - backing the Supremes, Steve Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas, the Miracles, the Four Tops, Marvin Gaye and many others - Jamerson created a sound, a feel and an impact that make him one of the three or four most important innovators in the last twenty years of American music. |
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| | JAMES JAMERSON, electric bass virtuoso |
| | It got to a stage where James would sit for hours listening to his old motown records where he played his funky bass lines, and remembering the freedom of his wild jamming nights, it was stressful and painful for him and for his family watching such a great musician so broken. | | | James Jamerson plays bass on countless Motown singles and album tracks, including classics by the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Four Tops, Martha and the Vandellas, the Miracles, the Marvelettes, the Temptations, Gladys Knight and The Pips and others. | | | Years later, 1967, Jamerson played on a hit record of a song written by Wylie, "With This Ring" by the Platters. |
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| | Insider Audio, September 2003 |
| | As is true of Jamerson, there is much education to be gleaned from listening to the music of Berio. | | | Jamerson never garnered much attention for himself, but as anyone (especially a bass player) who has ever listened closely to his tracks knows, he was nothing less than a genius. | | | The recordings are in the old "music-minus-one" style: The bass part is on one channel and the rest of the instrumental tracks are on the other. |
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| | Inside the James Jamerson Style |
| | Jamerson gave his total being to a track, and that’s why he’s the master. | | | Born on January 29, 1936, James Lee Jamerson was raised on the sounds of gospel, jazz, and blues radio stations. | | | From there, it seemed like Jamerson’s style expanded every year until his parts began to sound like bass solos, but totally in the pocket and supportive of the song. |
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| | JAMES JAMERSON Jr. Session Bassist. |
| | James is now very involved in the production side, producing and backing many artists on their albums. | | | As a youngster he saw the up and coming musicians in the bars, mostly he hung around the Motown Studios with all its incredible artists, listening to the amazing sounds and following the great changes which were happening to music. | | | Standing In The Shadows Of Motown: The Life And Music Of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson. |
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| | Untitled Document |
| | Her claim is that a significant portion of Motown's biggest hits were cut in LA by herself and a cast of West Coast musicians, as opposed to being recorded in Detroit by the Funk Brothers with James Jamerson on bass. | | | Instead she named several dozen’ most of them songs considered to be James Jamerson's signature performances. | | | It is not an opinion that James Jamerson played "Bernadette," "Reach Out," "I Was Made To Love Her," and the dozens of other Motown songs listed above that are claimed by Carol. |
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| | Anthony Jackson - No ordinary bass player: the man, the music, and the contrabass guitar. |
| | At the age of 12, he was inspired by the sound of a bass guitar on a Glen Campbell album and began to explore the possibilities of the instrument. | | | We'd all grown up on the Beatles, James Brown, and John Coltrane, and there were endless clubs and loft spaces to play and experiment in. | | | Although his uncompromising commitment to the contrabass guitar, his refusal to "mindlessly" slap and pop, and the increasing mechanization of music have led to unpredictable career turns, Jackson has remained immutably on course. |
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| | The Austin Chronicle Music: Tracks of My Tears |
| | For starters, James Jamerson was only one of Motown's "Funk Brothers," the small cadre of Detroit, mostly jazz musicians who backed Gordy's choir of vocal groups. | | | That Standing in the Shadows of Motown takes Jamerson and his basement all-stars from a musical footnote to full verse and chapter is about as righteous as talking Motown with four Funk Brothers in the Driskill Hotel on the morning following the film's October premiere at the Austin Film Festival. | | | "Saying that James Jamerson was just another studio bass player is like saying that Baryshnikov is just another dancer," writes Allan "Dr. Licks" Slutsky in his introduction to Standing in the Shadows of Motown -- The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson, the book that birthed the film. |
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| | History Of The Electric Bass |
| | From this single contribution, James Brown goes down in music as being one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. | | | The album was called "Bitches Brew," and it served as a musical revelation for both experimental rock musicians and Jazz musicians alike. | | | For the Jazz musician, this recording supplied the key to understanding the depth of the music of Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone and James Brown, and showed a generation of "Jazzers" how to employ these sounds into new-sounding improvisations, sounds that would reflect a nation in transition. |
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| | Joe Messina - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | Anchored by innovative bassist James Jamerson, keyboardist Earl Van Dyke, and drummer Benny Benjamin, the group also included guitarists Robert White and Eddie Willis, and later "replacement" drummers Uriel Jones and Richard "Pistol" Allen. | | | The guitarist was also proficient on keeping the backbeat, a key ingredient of the Motown sound that was later used in reggae music ("chunk... |
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| | James Jamerson |
| | It's dated July 6, 1966 (the year of the tune's release), it lists James Jamerson as the bassist (for which he received the princely sum of $61.00), and Detroit's Hitsville studio is indicated as the place where it was recorded. | | | The claims made (but not in your story) also include "I Was Made To Lover Her" by Stevie Wonder, and many more of Jamerson's signature recorded performances which were not mentioned in the LA Weekly story. | | | After three decades of obscurity, musicians and music lovers throughout the world were discovering the holy grail of the bass world-James Jamerson, the tormented genius whose earthquake-heavy bass lines fueled the Motown hit machine through the '60s and early '70s. |
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| | Blogcritics.org: Out from the Shadows of Motown |
| | The prototypical lineup was Benny Benjamin on drums, James Jamerson on bass, Earl Van Dyke on keyboards, James Giddons on percussion, and Robert White or Joe Messina on guitar. | | | Ed: I was listening to the two CDs that accompanies the book, and at one point, session bassist Anthony Jackson really waxes poetic about Jamerson, praising him effusively, and calling him one of the great musical geniuses of the 20th century... | | | Ed: Jamerson obviously changed the bass from its oompah background to a more melodic 8th and 16th note sound. |
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| | Jamerson, James at Musicroom.com - Sheet Music for Musicians - Search Results |
| | An in-depth exploration of James Jamerson's tumultuous life and musical brilliance. | | | Jamerson, James at Musicroom.com - Sheet Music for Musicians - Search Results | | | sheet music and CD Standing In The Shadows Of Motown: The Life And Music Of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson |
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| | James Jamerson DiscoMusic.com |
| | I didn't really know back in the early 60's who was actually playing the bass on all those Motown songs. | | | If you like the sound of Motown, you'll like the sound of James Jamerson. | | | Disco Music Home > Disco People Index > In Memory Of > James Jamerson |
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| | Funk Bros. in stand in spotlight for Artisan's 'Motown' |
| | On the album, in addition to the tracks on the movie, there are three archive songs, where they went back and stripped out the James Jamerson tracks. | | | "He realized that Jamerson was a genius and wound up writing a book called 'Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of James Jamerson,' which won the Rolling Stone magazine/Ralph J. Gleason Award as best music book of the year. | | | Also seen in the film are such performers and musicians as Joan Osborne, Gerald Levert, Meshell Ndegeocello, Bootsy Collins, Ben Harper, Chaka Khan, Montell Jordan and Tom Scott. |
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| | The Rugged Elegance World Marketplace Books : Standing in the Shadows of Motown : The Life and Music of Legendary ... |
| | His tumultuous life and musical brilliance are explored in depth through hundreds of interviews, 49 transcribed musical scores, two hours of recorded all-star performances, and more than 50 rarely seen photos in this stellar tribute to behind-the-scenes Motown. | | | Standing in the Shadows of Motown : The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson | | | Books : Standing in the Shadows of Motown : The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson |
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| | Standing in the Shadows of Motown -- The Funk Brothers |
| | When Motown's "Golden Era" ended in Detroit, Earl hooked up with Freda ("Band Of Gold") Payne and toured the world with her throughout the remaining years of the 1970s before returning home to teach music in the Detroit public school system. | | | After freelancing around Detroit in the mid-'60s, Bob joined Stevie Wonder's band in 1966 and eventually was brought into the studio in 1967. | | | Coming into Motown through the back door as Marvin Gaye's valet, Eddie eventually became Hitsville's most prolific conga player gracing many of the label's greatest recordings with his latin and jazz grooves. |
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| | Fender Players Club - James Jamerson |
| | James Jamerson's tumultuous life and musical brilliance are explored in hundreds of interviews, 49 transcribed musical scores, two hours of recorded performances by the most famous bassists of all time, and more than fifty rarely seen photographs. | | | GEAR SET UP STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN: The Life and Music of the Legendary Bassist James Jamerson | | | Unfortunately, Jamerson developed a serious drinking problem that hindered his work and his life in general, and at one point he was in danger of being dropped from the label. |
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| | James Jamerson MP3 Downloads - James Jamerson Music Downloads - James Jamerson Music Videos |
| | Judging by Stone Gossard's credentials -- guitarist in Pearl Jam, participator in numerous side projects, guesting on other artists' records, producer, owner of a Seattle recording studio, record label chairman, and a one-time speaker at a House of Subcommittee hearing in Washington -- he is a true rock & roll renaissance man. Born July 20,... | | | James Jamerson MP3 Downloads - James Jamerson Music Downloads - James Jamerson Music Videos | | | Portions of content provided by All Music Guide © 2005 AEC One Stop Group, Inc. |
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| | www.myspace.com/ |
| | James Jamerson, Robin Yeatman, Roger Waters, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Pigpen, Jerry and The Dead, | | | Fixing a Hole and Within You Without You are the only songs I can take seriously. | | | James Jamerson is my idol, a little cliched I know but seriously, anyone who can groove like that is the shit. |
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| | Motown Myth |
| | The latest effort was a movie which further cemented the traditional version of the Motown story into American music history. | | | His spot in music history was secure and he belongs in the Hall of Fame. | | | Irregardless of the actual percentage of Motown music recorded in LA, the truth is that none of the Funk Bros played on any of the LA recordings prior to the “OFFICIAL” move to LA which was announced in 1967, and only one of the Detroit musicians played for any Motown sessions after the move. |
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| | Topics... Amazing Comics Auction? 14042 Features Movie Posters! |
| | No bassist has done more for and with popular music than James Jamerson. | | | Enduring hits by Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Martha Reeves, Mary Wells, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, and others were created using this instrument. | | | While his name may not always be known by the countless millions of fans of his playing, his sound and style have influenced every player to pick up the instrument since Motown's first hit record. |
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| | Encore |
| | (Laughing.) On a serious note, you can look out for me once I finish my CD, which I'm putting together now...." - James Jamerson, Jr. |
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| | Xtreme Musician: James Jamerson |
| | Having played on on over 82 Motown hits and over 42 number 1 hit songs, the question should be 'who did James Jamerson not work with?" | | | James Jamerson created at least two hit basslines for each of the artists of the Motown Machine in his era including Martha and the Vandelas, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, the Temptations, the Four Tops, and the Supremes. | | | Do you have additional information on James Jamerson? |
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| | College of Charleston: News Story |
| | Also on hand will be Jamerson family members; and special guests from the Detroit and Los Angeles music and film industries. | | | In this first program of the recently established jazz initiative, the Avery Center will celebrate the music and career of the late jazz, rhythm and blues, and Motown bassist, James Jamerson. | | | The evening will feature a reception with live music by Jamerson cousin and President, South Carolina Chapter, Motown Alumni Association, Anthony McKnight and The Black Velvets. |
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| | Re: Carol Kaye Vs. James Jamerson |
| | ........She may have played on some of the West Coast sessions but from what I have heard and read not on the records that Jamerson played on (Check earlier answer to question about Carol and James) The "feed their families" comment was not made by Carol Kaye......Bob |
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| | Meet the Band |
| | Al is also a 1999 inductee in the Beach Music Hall of Fame in Myrtle Beach, SC. | | | Al has been entertaining audiences with his energetic performances for over 40 years. | | | Always in demand for his quick ear and sense of harmony, Mike has found a comfortable home in The Assembly playing bass lines inspired by James Jamerson and Paul McCartney. |
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| | Funk Bass Lesson: James Jamerson 16th Notes |
| | You can find Jamerson lines on most of the famous Motown hits or in the great book "Standing in the Shadows of Motown". | | | Learn to feel comfortable with the placement of 16th notes on and off the beat by playing this line and transcribing others like it. | | | Take a look at this classic James Jamerson type bass line. |
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| | XTC Forum - Electric Bass Players |
| | James Jamerson tops my list (just!) Closely followed by: | | | the guy from James Brown's band circa 1964...wasn't James Jamison was it... | | | Donald 'Duck' Dunn (how could we forget the Stax house band!) |
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| | Standing in the Shadows of Motown - The Blockheads Official Forum |
| | 12/01/04 at 01:32 AM What a shame bass genius James Jamerson drank himself into an early departure from this world some years back and consequently is not now receiving the accolades he so deserves. | | | His son James Jamerson Jnr has however continued to fly the flag and is no slouch!! | | | By the way, I've been away in very sunny climes of late, and no, it aint good to be back!! |
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| | Bass Guitar Encyclopedia Guitar Chords Guitar Lessons Guitar Practicing Beginning Guitar Tips for Practice |
| | Interestingly, one of the greatest bassists ever, James Jamerson, well known for his work in many popular motown songs, played the bass with only his index finger, and many of his bass lines were more complex than some of the great modern bassists of today who use both their index and middle fingers. | | | By resting their thumb to anchor their hand while they use their index and middle fingers, bassists create a fuller and louder sound. | | | Bassists also have different preferences as to where on the string they pluck the notes. |
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| | James Jamerson |
| | Find where James Jamerson is credited alongside another name | | | Part of the in-house group at Motown known as the Funk Brothers. | | | You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. |
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| | James Jamerson justabassplayer.com |
| | It also contains a forum where bassists and bass enthusiasts can share info and trade stories about their favorites. | | | The new site will be primarily devoted to the great bassists of all time, especially James Jamerson. |
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| | Rockwalk Inductees |
| | Click on the thumbnail to the right to see photos of James Jamerson. | | | Click on the thumbnail to the right to see James Jamerson's Rockwalk Plaque. | | | Jamerson died of pneumonia in 1983 at the age of 45. |
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| | ActiveBass: James Jamerson |
| | You are here: Artists : Index 'J' : James Jamerson |
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