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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, he was a figure of fun — respectful fun, of course, but still. He was the most lovable of the lovable mop-tops, the most good-natured member of that most good-natured of bands, The ...

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 ...

The post 10 Albums Daru Jones Thinks Every Drummer Should Own appeared first on Consequence. This made him a major asset to Jack White when he began his solo project over 10 years ago. Jones has named ...

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 ...