Exploring the tragic life of bassist James Jamerson, who inspired Paul McCartney and established the Motown sound, but went ...

The Life and Times of the Temptations” recounts how young Black men from Detroit created a lasting musical legacy.

Reeves first took a job at Motown as a secretary; combined with Annette Beard and Rosalind Ashford from the local act, the Del-Phis, the group became The Vandellas.

This Grammy Award-winning documentary, directed by Paul Justman, tells the tale of the iconic studio group the Funk Brothers, which played the music for many a Motown hit (though often uncredited).

Named Best Non-Fiction Film of 2002 by the New York Film Critics, among other awards including two Grammys, Standing in the Shadows of Motown chronicled the story of the Funk Brothers, the ...

An official member of Motown Records’ illustrious Funk Brothers session players and the driving beat behind such R&B immortals as the Temptations’ “Cloud Nine” and Eddie Kendricks’s ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - They were known as the Funk Brothers, the session or in-house musicians who brought the music to life for Motown’s biggest artists. These jazz musicians provided the soulful ...

Joe Messina, a guitarist with the Motown session band known as the Funk Brothers whose largely anonymous work graced hit records such as Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” Stevie Wonder’s ...

When the Funk Brothers came to prominence again with the 2002 documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown and went on tour after its release, “they would say, ‘We’re gonna play such and ...

The Funk Brothers would crank out records every day in Motown’s Hitsville USA studio. Messina played a Fender Telecaster, and his bright tones appeared, uncredited, on dozens of hits.

Joe Messina, a jazz guitarist whose work with the Funk Brothers helped build the bedrock of the Motown sound, died Monday in Northville. He was 93. Messina, a longtime Warren resident, died at 4 a ...

Joe Messina, the prolific guitarist whose work with the Funk Brothers can be heard on an array of Motown classics, died Monday, April 4, the Detroit Free Press reports. He was 93.