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Performer

James Jamerson

Style

session

Country

United States

Listenings: 25
Listeners: 6

Performer description

James Lee Jamerson was an American bassist. He was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s, and is now regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bass players in modern music history. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. As a session musician he played on twenty-three Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits, as well as fifty-six R&B number-one hits.

Participated in

Bill Withers Boz Scaggs Eddie Kendricks Four Tops Gloria Gaynor Joan Baez John Lee Hooker Jr. Walker & the All Stars Martha and the Vandellas Marvin Gaye Renée Geyer Robert Palmer Stevie Wonder The Pointer Sisters The Supremes