Session Musicians

Malcolm John Rebennack was born in New Orleans in 1941. As a teenager he learned to play guitar and started to get involved in the music industry. Thanks...

Hall’s solution to the problems posed by the departure of the Swampers in 1969 was to put together a new band made up of people he had already...

Soon after the creation of the company, Satellite Records signed a local group called the Mar-Keys, that had grown out of a local high school group called The...

Jack Ashford was born in 1934 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,  where he attended the Granhof School of Music, following in the footsteps of John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie. He...

Larry Veeder was a member of the Joe Hunter Band that played on the early Tamla recordings. He played on Motown sessions up to 1962, but White, Willis...

As Allen Toussaint took over as leading producer in New Orleans, the initial wave of session men from Dave Bartholomew’s band were replaced or joined by musicians from...

Born in 1938, Allen Toussaint grew up in a shotgun house in New Orleans. He learned piano as a child, taking lessons from a neighbour. His career in...

The Memphis Horns was a duo formed in 1969 by two members of The Mar-Keys horn section at Stax. The two members were Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love,...

In 1967 Rick Hall decided to set up a horn section at FAME Studios, probably influenced by the success of the Memphis Horns, Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love....

James Booker was an extraordinary musician and performer. He was born in New Orleans in 1939, the son of a Baptist minister. His mother gave him a saxophone...