Wade Marcus was a music producer and arranger associated with the Motown sound during the 1970s. [1] [2] He composed the music to the film The Final Comedown with Grant Green. [1] He also produced albums by The Blackbyrds, Gary Bartz, A Taste of Honey, The Sylvers, Eddie Kendricks, The Dramatics, Peaches & Herb, Donald Byrd, G. C. Cameron, Stevie Wonder and The Emotions. [1]
With Brass Fever
With Horace Silver
With Ron Carter
With Bo Diddley
With Ronnie Foster
With Grant Green
With Bobbi Humphrey
With Blue Mitchell
With Marlena Shaw
With Sonny Stitt
With Stanley Turrentine
With Reuben Wilson
Cornell Luther Dupree was an American jazz and R&B guitarist. He worked at various times with Aretha Franklin, Bill Withers, Donny Hathaway, King Curtis, and Steve Gadd, appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, and wrote a book on soul and blues guitar, Rhythm and Blues Guitar. He reportedly recorded on 2,500 sessions.
Melbourne Robert Cranshaw was an American jazz bassist. His career spanned the heyday of Blue Note Records to his later involvement with the Musicians Union. He is perhaps best known for his long association with Sonny Rollins. Cranshaw performed in Rollins's working band on and off for over five decades, starting with a live appearance at the 1959 Playboy jazz festival in Chicago and on record with the 1962 album The Bridge.
Charles Tolliver is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and co-founder of Strata East Records.
Grady Tate was an American jazz and soul-jazz drummer and baritone vocalist. In addition to his work as sideman, Tate released many albums as leader and lent his voice to songs in the animated Schoolhouse Rock! series. He received two Grammy nominations.
Charles Walter Rainey III is an American bass guitarist who has performed and recorded with many well-known acts, including Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, and Quincy Jones. Rainey is credited for playing bass on more than 1,000 albums, and is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of recorded music.
Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie is an American drummer, and an influential R&B, soul and funk musician. He is known for his precise musical time-keeping and his signature use of triplets against a half-time backbeat: the "Purdie Shuffle." He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013.
Edward James "Bongo" Brown was an American percussionist known for his work with The Funk Brothers, Detroit-based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 to 1972.
David T. Walker is an American soul/R&B, and jazz guitarist. In addition to numerous session musician duties since the early 1970s, Walker has issued fifteen albums in his own name.
Wilton Lewis Felder was an American saxophone and bass player, and is best known as a founding member of the Jazz Crusaders, later known as The Crusaders. Felder played bass on the Jackson 5's hits "I Want You Back" and "ABC" and on Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On".
Emil Richards was an American vibraphonist and percussionist.
Garnett Brown was an American jazz trombonist who worked with The Crusaders, Herbie Hancock, Lionel Hampton, Earth Wind and Fire and others.
Harold Vick was an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.
Bill Summers is an American, New Orleans based Afro-Cuban jazz/Latin jazz percussionist, a multi-instrumentalist who plays primarily on conga drums.
Marvin Louis Stamm is an American jazz trumpeter.
Wayne Andre was an American jazz trombonist, best known for his work as a session musician.
Bobby Bryant was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.
Oscar Brashear was an American jazz trumpeter and session musician from Chicago, Illinois.
George Roland Bohanon, Jr. is a jazz trombonist and session musician from Detroit, Michigan.
This is the discography for American jazz musician Richard Davis.
This is the discography for American double bassist Ron Carter.