All Turned On! Motown Instrumentals 1960-1972 is exactly what it says it is. It could be a regular trawl through Motown’s back pages but – obviously – isn’t. The unreleased cuts are supplemented by ...

Johnny Griffith, a keyboard player with the Funk Brothers, the highly skilled group of Detroit studio musicians who helped create and define the legendary Motown sound, has died. He was 66. Griffith ...

So what exactly is a Motown icon like Smokey Robinson doing in the lineup for this year's Tri-C JazzFest? Actually, it makes perfect sense. Motown's roots in jazz run deep -- and so do Robinson's.

Philadelphia-based Lifeline Music Coalition has for over a decade sponsored jazz events which are eclectic in taste and attract fans by making the music listenable and providing enjoyable atmospherics ...

Inside the mythic Studio A exhibit at the Motown Museum, you can see an actual Gibson 335 guitar and wah-wah pedal Dennis Coffey would use in recording “Cloud Nine,” “Just My Imagination,” and ...

For many music lovers, Detroit is best known for the ‘Motown Sound’ a genre influenced by gospel vocals and driving bass lines. The Motown story began with Berry Gordy, Detroiter and music lover, who ...