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Bobbye Hall, percussion — one of the few female session musicians [3] Bobby Keys, saxophone [5] Carol Kaye, bass guitar — one of the few female session musicians [3] David Sanborn, saxophone [3] Earl Palmer, drums; Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello [4] Geraint Watkins, accordion, piano [6] Hal Blaine, drums; Jay Graydon, guitar [4]
A. Don Abney; Arthur Adams (singer) Alex Feather Akimov; Tariqh Akoni; Don Alias; Davie Allan; Richard Allen (drummer) Jerry Allison; Duane Allman; Santiago Almeida
Session musicians rarely achieve mainstream fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders. However, top session musicians are well-known within the music industry. Some have become publicly recognized, such as the Wrecking Crew, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section [3] and The Funk Brothers who worked with Motown Records.
The Wrecking Crew, also known as the Clique and the First Call Gang, was a loose collective of American session musicians based in Los Angeles who played on many studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including hundreds of top 40 hits. The musicians were not publicly recognized at the time, but were viewed with reverence by industry insiders.
The Nashville A-Team was a nickname given to a group of session musicians in Nashville, Tennessee, who earned wide acclaim in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, similar to their West Coast counterpart who became known (after the fact) as the Wrecking Crew. Some members of the Nashville A-Team were also subsequently or previously members of the ...
By the mid-1960s, the Beatles became interested in tape loops and found sounds. [36] [37] Early examples of the group sampling existing recordings include loops on "Revolution 9" [37] (the repetitive "number nine" is from a Royal Academy of Music examination tape, some chatter is from a conversation between George Martin and Apple office manager Alistair Taylor, and a chord from a recording of ...
Joe learned Billy's technique of producing and became friends with Nashville's A-Team studio session musicians. [2] As Chambers watched Sherrill conduct recording sessions for Charlie Rich, Johnny Paycheck, George Jones, Elvis Costello, Ray Charles, Marty Robbins, Tammy Wynette and others, he became fascinated by the skills of the session ...
Pages in category "Session musicians" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...