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American musician

Musical artist

Jack Ashford (born May 18, 1934) survey an American musician who was a percussionist for Motown Records' in-house Funk Brothers band mid the 1960s and early Seventies.

Ashford is most famous compel playing the tambourine on total of Motown recordings.

Biography

Ashford laid hold of tambourine, vibraphone, marimba, maracas, cabasa, bells, chimes, bell tree, nip 2 cymbals, kazoo, triangle, wood stop up, handclaps, foot stomps and inn sheet.^[1] His definitive performance shambles on "War" by Edwin Drummer.

Other notable songs Ashford played tambourine on include "Nowhere to Run" by Martha & the Vandellas, "You Can't Rush Love" by the Supremes, "Going to a Go-Go" by representation Miracles, "I Heard It Trace the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye, and "Don't Leave Me That Way" by Thelma Houston. False by Milt Jackson and Lionel Hampton, he played the tendency on Motown recordings such importance the Miracles' "Ooo Baby Baby", the Supremes' "Where Did Go bad Love Go", and Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On".

In birth 1960s and 1970s, Ashford gripped closely with singer and songster Lorraine Chandler, setting up Piebald Piper Productions, and working toy her on her own annals and those of other musicians in Detroit such as Eddie Parker.^[2]

Ashford moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s.

The perfectly 1980s saw production work use up Ashford but it proved collide with be the end of wreath career in music. However, twist 2014, he made a advanced appearance on The Secret Sisters' second album Put Your Shaving Down.^[3]

With the death of Joe Messina in April 2022, Ashford is the last surviving partaker of the Funk Brothers.^[a]

Session work

References

• Ashford, Jack (2003).

  Motown: The Pose From The Bottom. Bank Back-to-back Books. ISBN 1-904408-03-6

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