Allan Slutsky

A combination biography, music history text, and instructional music book for bass guitar players, with an accompanying tape recording of some of Jamerson's music.
James Jamerson "was the embodiment of the Motown spirit and groove - the invisible entity whose bass playing inspired thousands of imitators, and made it impossible for anyone with a pulse to sit still whenever a Motown record was playing... Now for the first time in print, James Jamerson's tumultuous life and musical brilliance are explored in depth through hundreds of interviews, forty-nine transcribed musical scores, two hours of recorded all-star performances, and more than fifty rarely-seen photographs." - jacket notes.… (mere)