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Motor City Beat - Wedding Band Detroit

Wedding Band Detroit Detroit MI
Motor City Beat
Telephone: 7344764445
Address:


4111 Timber Ridge Drive
Ann Arbor, MI
US
email: louis@lkforest.com
Website: www.motownbeat.com


Wedding Band Detroit

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www.motownbeat.com

“MOTOWN BEAT” represents Louis Johnson (piano, sax, flute & vocals) and a consortium of Detroit Area professional musicians and vocalists, who have worked with Louis for many years. We offer high quality live jazz and rhythm and blues music for special events in combos ranging from “Jazz Duo” (Piano & Bass) to full “R & B Show Band” (11 pieces including bass, drums, guitar, three lead vocalists, three horns and percussion) and everything in between.

- Funky Piano Trio
- Quartet with Guitar/Vocals
- Quartet with Male Vocalist
- Quartet with Female Vocalist
- Juke Box - (45 plays)

Influences
Probably our closest associates and influences were the late great John E. Griffith and Richard “Pitstol” Allen. Johnny (who co-founded MCB with Louis in the mid 1980s) and Pistol were jazz players from Detroit who collaborated with Berry Gordy and together with a group of jazz guys turned studio musicians, who came to be called “the Funk Brothers”, were the heartbeat and core of the Motown sound beginning in the early 1960s (Supremes, Smoky Robinson, the Tops) continuing through the mid 1970s (Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations). We all learned a lot from Johnny and Pistol, who were equally adept at straight jazz and “funk”.

In terms of the actual music which we play, our big influences on the jazz side would include: Duke Ellington, Count Basie, singers, including Louis, Ella, Frank and Nat King Cole, Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Tom Jobim and Stan Getz, Miles Davis and many more.

On the R & B side, we credit blues guys like John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, the Motown studio cats, the Temptations, the Spinners and the Four Tops, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, the Beatles, Santana, Joe Cocker and many more.

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www.motownbeat.com

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Wedding Band Detroit Detroit MI
In both the Jazz and R & B realms, our main influences are the Detroit musicians who we’ve worked with over the years, many of whom gained national prominence




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