Guardian Music — Bass guitarist with Booker T & the MGs, the band at the heart of the Stax soul soundThe soul music created at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, was an indelible part of the soundtrack of the 1960s. The magisterial and hypnotic bass-guitar lines on ... more info

Guardian Music — Booker T and the MGs groover was a familiar presence on blues and soul recordings and played himself in 'The Blues Brothers'Musician Donald "Duck" Dunn, the pioneering bass player whose grooves drove Booker T and the MGs and hits including Otis Reddi... more info

Core News — “Solid Steel in association with Serato (11th May) Coldcut open with the strange and wonderful Connan Mockasin and slide effortlessly into classic Issac Hayes and the Trojan sounds of Vin Gordon. It’s more reggae from Donovan Carless and Roy Pant... more info

Guardian Music — Guitarist behind the 'wacka wacka' sound on Isaac Hayes's Theme from ShaftThe film Shaft was notable for inaugurating the blaxploitation genre in Hollywood, winning an Oscar in 1972 for best original song. Composed by Isaac Hayes, Theme from Shaft â€... more info

USA Today Music — Charles "Skip" Pitts, who played the distinctive guitar in Isaac Hayes' 'Theme From Shaft,' died Tuesday. more info

ContactMusic — Isaac Hayes longtime guitarist Charles Pitts has died after a long battle with cancer The musician also known as Skip passed away on Tuesday 01May12 in Memphis Tennessee He was 65 Pitts grew up in Washington D C and learned all about guita... more info

Guardian Music — Saxophonist with the Memphis Horns, who made an important contribution to the sound of 60s soulThe precise, rich brass riffs on such records as Wilson Pickett's In the Midnight Hour, Sam & Dave's Soul Man and Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness we... more info

Guardian Music — An RR a day helps you work, rest and playChocolate makes for a rich metaphor. It's sweet, it melts, it's velvety and smooth – it's the most sexual of sweet stuffs. Its colour, too, lends it resonance – though only in the hands of black artists. S... more info

Popdose — Isaac Hayes and David Porter wrote a string of hits for Sam & Dave in the '60s. Ken Shane recalls perhaps the greatest of them all more info

Guardian Music — Singer with the American vocal group the Soul ChildrenThe soul singer J Blackfoot, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 65, was a member of the Soul Children, a vocal quartet whose searing ballads of heartache and infidelity were among the last maj... more info