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Louis Johnson (bassist)

Index Louis Johnson (bassist)

Louis Johnson (April 13, 1955 – May 21, 2015) was an American bass guitarist. [1]

83 relations: A&M Records, Andraé Crouch, Angela Bofill, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin, Bass Player (magazine), Bill Withers, Billie Jean, Billy Preston, Björk, Capitol Records, Dangerous (Michael Jackson album), Dave Grusin, Deniece Williams, Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, Donna Summer, Earl Klugh, Finger Paintings, Funk, Gábor Szabó, George Benson, George Duke, Give Me the Night (George Benson song), Grammy Award, Grover Washington Jr., Hal Leonard Corporation, Harvey Mason, Herb Alpert, Herbie Hancock, Hiroshima (band), I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near), Irene Cara, James Ingram, Jazz, Jeffrey Osborne, John Mellencamp, Karen Carpenter, Kenny Loggins, Kent A. Jordan, Larry Graham, Lee Ritenour, Leo Fender, Leon Haywood, Lesley Gore, Living inside Your Love, Makoto Izumitani, Michael Jackson, Modern soul, Motown, Music Man StingRay, ..., Natalie Cole, Off the Wall, Patti Austin, Paul McCartney, Peabo Bryson, Peggy Lee, Phil Collins, Quincy Jones, René & Angela, Rhythm and blues, Rufus (band), Sérgio Mendes, Session musician, Side Effect, Sister Sledge, Slapping (music), Soul music, Stanley Clarke, Star Licks Productions, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, Sweet Comfort Band, The Brothers Johnson, The Controllers (R&B band), The Crusaders, The Jackson 5, The Pointer Sisters, The Ritz (quartet), The Temptations, Thriller (Michael Jackson album), Time Exposure (Stanley Clarke album), Tony Haynes, Vanity 6. Expand index (33 more) »

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Andraé Crouch

Andraé Edward Crouch (July 1, 1942 – January 8, 2015) was an American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, record producer and pastor.

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Angela Bofill

Angela Tomasa Bofill (born May 3, 1954) is an American R&B and jazz singer-songwriter.

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Anita Baker

Anita Denise Baker (born January 26, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Bass Player (magazine)

Bass Player is a magazine for bassists.

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Bill Withers

William Harrison Withers Jr. (born July 4, 1938) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985.

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Billie Jean

"Billie Jean" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson, released in January 1983 as the second single from his sixth album Thriller (1982).

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Billy Preston

William Everett Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American musician whose work included R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel.

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Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Dangerous (Michael Jackson album)

Dangerous is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson, released by Epic Records on November 26, 1991.

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Dave Grusin

Robert David Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an American composer, arranger, producer, and pianist.

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Deniece Williams

Deniece Williams (born June Deniece Chandler; June 3, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and producer.

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Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" is a single written and recorded by American singer Michael Jackson.

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Donna Summer

LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), widely known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter.

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Earl Klugh

Earl Klugh (born September 16, 1953) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.

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Finger Paintings

Finger Paintings is the third studio album by Earl Klugh released in 1977.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Gábor Szabó

Gábor István Szabó (March 8, 1936 – February 26, 1982) was a Hungarian American guitarist whose style incorporated jazz, pop, rock, and Hungarian music.

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George Benson

George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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George Duke

George Duke (January 12, 1946 – August 5, 2013) was an American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres.

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Give Me the Night (George Benson song)

"Give Me the Night" is a song recorded by American jazz musician George Benson, which he released from his 1980 studio album of the same title.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grover Washington Jr.

Grover Washington Jr. (December 12, 1943 – December 17, 1999) was an American jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

Hal Leonard Corporation is a United States music publishing and distribution company founded in Winona, Minnesota, by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother, Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and fellow musician Roger Busdicker.

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Harvey Mason

Harvey William Mason (born February 22, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay.

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Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American jazz musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.

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Hiroshima (band)

Hiroshima is an American jazz fusion/smooth jazz/Asian-American jazz band formed in 1974 by Sansei Japanese American Dan Kuramoto (wind instruments and band leader), Peter Hata (guitar), June Kuramoto (koto), Johnny Mori (percussion and taiko), Dave Iwataki (keyboards) and Danny Yamamoto (drums).

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I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)

"I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)" (also known as "I Keep Forgettin") is a song by American singer-songwriter Michael McDonald, from his debut album If That's What It Takes.

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Irene Cara

Irene Cara Escalera (born March 18, 1959),Bob McCann, Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Actresses in Film and Television, McFarland & Company, 2010,, p. 67.

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James Ingram

James Edward Ingram (born February 16, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jeffrey Osborne

Jeffrey Linton Osborne (born March 9, 1948) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, lyricist, and lead singer of the band LTD.

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John Mellencamp

John J Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor.

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Karen Carpenter

Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983) was an American singer and drummer, and part of the duo the Carpenters with her brother Richard.

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Kenny Loggins

Kenneth Clark Loggins (born January 7, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Kent A. Jordan

Kent Amos Jordan (born October 24, 1957 in West Point, New York) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

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Larry Graham

Larry Graham Jr. (born August 14, 1946) is an American bass guitar player, both with the psychedelic soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone, and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station.

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Lee Ritenour

Lee Mack Ritenour (born January 11, 1952) is an American jazz guitarist.

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Leo Fender

Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991) was an American inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, or "Fender" for short.

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Leon Haywood

Otha Leon Haywood (February 11, 1942 – April 5, 2016) was an American funk and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Lesley Gore

Lesley Sue Goldstein (May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015), known professionally as Lesley Gore, was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist.

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Living inside Your Love

Living inside Your Love is the second studio album by Earl Klugh released in 1976, by Blue Note Records, BN-LA667-G. George Butler was the executive producer.

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Makoto Izumitani

Makoto Izumitani (born August 28, 1972 in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan) is a drummer.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Modern soul

Modern soul is a style of music with associated clothing and dance styles (precursors to the disco era), that developed in Northern England in the early 1970s.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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Music Man StingRay

Music Man StingRay is an electric bass guitar by Music Man, introduced in 1976.

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Natalie Cole

Natalie Maria Cole (February 6, 1950 – December 31, 2015) was an American singer, voice actress, songwriter, and actress.

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Off the Wall

Off the Wall is the fifth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released on August 10, 1979 in the United States by Epic Records and internationally by CBS Records.

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Patti Austin

Patti Austin (born August 10, 1950) is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B, pop and jazz singer.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Peabo Bryson

Peabo Bryson (born Robert Peapo Bryson; April 13, 1951, given name changed from "Peapo" to Peabo c. 1965) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, born in Greenville, South Carolina.

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Peggy Lee

Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, in a career spanning six decades.

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Phil Collins

Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English drummer, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.

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René & Angela

René & Angela were an American R&B duo consisting of musical artists and producers René Moore and Angela Winbush.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rufus (band)

Rufus was an American funk band from Chicago, Illinois best known for launching the career of lead singer Chaka Khan.

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Sérgio Mendes

Sérgio Santos Mendes (born February 11, 1941) is a Brazilian musician.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Side Effect

Side Effect was an American disco and jazz-funk band, that recorded between 1972 and 1982.

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Sister Sledge

Sister Sledge is an American musical vocal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Slapping (music)

Slapping and popping are ways to produce percussive sounds on a double bass or bass guitar by bouncing strings against the fretboard.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951) is an American bassist and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands.

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Star Licks Productions

Star Licks Productions (also known as StarLicks) was an instructional music publishing company conceived by Mark Freed and co-founded by Andrew Cross and Robert Decker.

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Stevie Nicks

Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Sweet Comfort Band

Sweet Comfort Band was an American Christian rock band that first performed in 1973 in Riverside, California, and were active until 1984.

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The Brothers Johnson

The Brothers Johnson were an American funk, Motown and R&B band consisting of American musicians and brothers George ("Lightnin' Licks") and Louis E. Johnson ("Thunder Thumbs").

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The Controllers (R&B band)

The Controllers are an American soul and R&B vocal group, originally from Birmingham, Alabama, who had a series of successful recordings in the late 1970s and the 1980s.

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The Crusaders

The Crusaders was an American jazz fusion group that was popular in the 1970s. The group was known as the Jazz Crusaders before shortening its name in 1971.

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The Jackson 5

The Jackson 5, or Jackson Five, currently known as the Jacksons, are an American family music group.

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The Pointer Sisters

The Pointer Sisters are an American R&B singing group from Oakland, California, who achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s.

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The Ritz (quartet)

The Ritz is a barbershop quartet from the of the Barbershop Harmony Society.

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The Temptations

The Temptations are an American vocal group who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Thriller (Michael Jackson album)

Thriller is the sixth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released on November 30, 1982, in the United States by Epic Records and internationally by CBS Records.

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Time Exposure (Stanley Clarke album)

Time Exposure is the thirteenth album by Stanley Clarke.

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Tony Haynes

Tony Haynes (born August 5, 1960) is an American lyricist, songwriter, poet, music publisher, producer and author.

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Vanity 6

Vanity 6 was an American female vocal trio assembled by American musician Prince in mid–1981.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Johnson_(bassist)

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