In the music of Stevie Wonder — who grew up listening to Jones’ own records and work with Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and others — Jones’ influence lives strongest in the ...

Jones would go on to arrange music for Frank Sinatra, childhood friend Ray Charles and jazz greats Ella Fitzgerald ... The ...

Inside, Michael Jackson was already recording his vocal parts as Billy Joel and Stevie Wonder paid their respects to Ray Charles, and Diana Ross jumped playfully into Bob Dylan’s lap.

He served as band director for Dizzy Gillespie and arranged two of Ray Charles’ most iconic ... Are the World which featured Jackson, Charles, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan ...

But of course that cover, which featured Mr. Jones smiling alongside Stevie Wonder, Babyface and Coolio ... certain names ...

Within a few years he was playing trumpet and befriending a young blind musician named Ray Charles ... Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen. He co-wrote hits for Jackson – “P.Y.T ...

Greg Phillinganes, the synthesizer virtuoso who began his career with Stevie Wonder, got many such calls ... and hot big-band tunes on his friend Ray Charles’s LP “Genius + Soul = Jazz.” ...

At the apex of Jackson’s popularity in January 1985, Jones recorded “We Are the World” with a cast of soloists that also included Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross ...

The ultimate RnB keyboard player, raised in Gospel he brought so much soul and feeling to his playing with Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles ... by Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, Johnny Cash ...

Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Joe Williams, Oscar Brown, Jr., Donny Hathaway, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye, are just a few of the influences that shape his sound. It is the music, the ...

The band is mostly funk- and rock-oriented, with Binder citing John Scofield, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Parliament and Weather Report as some of its many influences. At live shows, the band ...