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Motown Drummer Uriel Jones Dies at 74

by King on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 13:35

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Motown drummer Uriel Jones, whose hard-driving funk propelled classic tunes by the Temptations and Marvin Gaye, died in a Michigan hospital on Tuesday after suffering complications from a heart attack, a family member said. He was 74.

Jones, the last surviving drummer in the Motown session band known as the Funk Brothers, was stricken in mid-February but had been showing signs of improvement, said his sister-in-law Leslie Coleman. He relapsed last Tuesday, and died at Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center in Dearborn, she told Reuters.

Jones came to Motown in 1964 after touring with Gaye, and recorded for Motown's enfant terrible on "Ain't That Peculiar," "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough."

"Uriel's drum sound was the most open and laid-back, and he was the funkiest of the three guys we had," said Motown arranger Paul Riser. "He had a mixed feel and did a lot of different things well."

Source: http://www.reuters.com

In Feburary 09' Uriel was featured in what would become his final interview with The Black Page Magazine for their Legends of Drumming - highlighting Jones as one of the "Godfathers of Drumming".

*** To subscribe to The Black Page and read the interview for FREE, check out the Feburary edition at :

http://www.theblackpage.net/download.html

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