THOM DOUVAN
Genres: Soul Jazz, Post-Fusion Contemporary • United States

Guitarist and composer Thom Douvan hails from Ann Arbor, Michigan where he grew up listening to the Motown sounds at the very source as the 45’s from Hitsville Studios landed on the streets of West Grand Boulevard in nearby Detroit. Later, Thom had the distinct privilege of playing regularly with four of the original ‘Funk Brothers,’ the elite studio musicians handpicked by Berry Gordy to be in the Motown recording bullpen: pianist and organist John Griffith, pianist Joe Hunter, drummer Richard ‘Pistol’ Allen and drummer ‘Spider’ Webb. Between those four Funk Brothers, they played on virtually all the major Motown hits and with all the major Motown artists from 1958 to 1971, including ‘I Heard it Through the Grapevine,’ ‘My Girl,’ ‘What’s Going On,’ ‘Dancing in the Streets,’ ‘Heatwave,’ and the other hits by Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, the Temptations, the Four Tops, etc. The experience of playing with and read more...