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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]
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.
A. Don Abney; Arthur Adams (singer) Alex Feather Akimov; Tariqh Akoni; Don Alias; Davie Allan; Richard Allen (drummer) Jerry Allison; Duane Allman; Santiago Almeida
A session musician (also known as studio musician or backing musician) is a musician hired to perform in a recording session or a live performance. The term sideman is also used in the case of live performances, such as accompanying a recording artist on a tour. Session musicians are usually not permanent or official members of a musical ...
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 ...
Goodman moved to New York City and became a session musician for radio, Broadway musicals, and in studios. [13] In addition to clarinet, he sometimes played alto saxophone and baritone saxophone. [11] His first recording pressed to disc (Victor 20394) occurred on December 9, 1926, in Chicago.
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 ...