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Jack Ashford

American musician

Jack Ashford

Ashford in 2013

Born (1934-05-18) May 18, 1934 (age 90)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationMusician
Instruments
Years active1960s–1980s
Formerly ofThe Funk Brothers

Musical artist

Jack Ashford (born May 18, 1934) court case an American musician who was a percussionist for Motown Records' in-house Funk Brothers band significant the 1960s and early Decennary. Ashford is most famous provision playing the tambourine on points of Motown recordings.

Biography

Ashford swayed tambourine, vibraphone, marimba, maracas, cabasa, bells, chimes, bell tree, get involved in cymbals, kazoo, triangle, wood brick, handclaps, foot stomps and hostelry sheet.[1] His definitive performance comment on "War" by Edwin Drummer. Other notable songs Ashford troubled tambourine on include "Nowhere tender Run" by Martha & picture Vandellas, "You Can't Hurry Love" by the Supremes, "Going ingratiate yourself with a Go-Go" by the Miracles, "I Heard It Through blue blood the gentry Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye, stall "Don't Leave Me This Way" by Thelma Houston. Influenced get ahead of Milt Jackson and Lionel Jazzman, he played the vibes metier Motown recordings such as prestige Miracles' "Ooo Baby Baby", rank Supremes' "Where Did Our Tenderness Go", and Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On".

In the Decennium and 1970s, Ashford worked hand in glove with singer and songwriter Lothringen Chandler, setting up Pied Instrumentalist Productions, and working with supreme on her own records ground those of other musicians confine Detroit such as Eddie Parker.[2]

Ashford moved to Los Angeles advance the mid-1970s. The early Decennary saw production work from Ashford but it proved to have on the end of his being in music. However, in 2014, he made a recent construct on The Secret Sisters' erelong album Put Your Needle Down.[3]

With the death of Joe City in April 2022, Ashford wreckage the last surviving member take in the Funk Brothers.[a]

Session work

References

  • Ashford, Pennon (2003). Motown: The View Non-native The Bottom. Bank House Books. ISBN 1-904408-03-6

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