Guardian Music — Motown drummer who featured on many of the label's finest releasesThe contribution of the Funk Brothers, the studio band that helped to create the Motown sound in the 1960s, achieved only belated recognition: it was in 2002, with the release of the d... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — DETROIT - Uriel Jones, a drummer whose versatile, passionate beat fuelled classic Motown hits by the Temptations, Four Tops and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, has died following complications from a heart attack. He was 74. more info

Idolator — Uriel Jones, the last surviving drummer from Motown studio band the Funk Brothers, died from heart attack-related complications yesterday in Michigan. Jones was brought to the Motown fold as Marvin Gaye's tour drummer, but he caught on with the labe... more info

Guardian Music — Uriel Jones, one of the founding members of the Funk Brothers, has died aged 74 after complications from a heart attackUriel Jones, one of the original members of Motown band the Funk Brothers, has died after suffering complications from a heart atta... more info

BBC News - UK — Motown drummer Uriel Jones, best known for playing with the Temptations and Marvin Gaye, dies aged 74. more info

Reuters — 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... more info

All About Jazz — David Williams, 58, a session guitar player who performed and recorded with Michael Jackson, Madonna and the Temptations, among others, died of cardiac arrest March 6 at the Sentara CarePlex Hospital in Hampton, Va., after suffering a stroke March 2.... more info

JamBase — By: Scott Caffrey While historical credit will go to Brooklyn's Antibalas as the first American blazers of Afrobeat, the Chocolate City's Chopteeth will be known as the ones who took it to the nth degree. With pedigree chops and a legitimate band... more info

Idolator — Hey, it's a list! Let's argue about it? Esquire has published an "unranked, incomplete, yet highly tasteful and informative" rundown of 75 long-players that "every man should own" with the usual bite-sized commentary the magazine devotes to these sor... more info

Guardian Music — Soul guitarist whose comeback album brought him acclaimThe tremolo guitar of the US musician Robert Ward, who has died aged 70 after several years of ill health, stands among the most distinctive instrumental sounds of 1960s soul music. In 1990, havi... more info