Questlove explains Indie collaborations, Amy Winehouse supergroup
Roots drummer, producer and musical director Amir "Questlove" Thompson discusses new sound and Amy Winehouse collaboration...
From Spinner.com:
Roots drummer, producer and musical director Amir “Questlove” Thompson is an inveterate multitasker. Tuesday night at the Toronto Jazz Festival media compound, he took a few minutes out from prepping for his band’s sold-out show to chat, as he semi-apologetically checked his Blackberry. One could assume that he was going through his electronic Rolodex, lining up more and more collaborations.
As the house band on ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,’ the Roots have found themselves working with everyone from Paul Simon to Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain. The band’s new release, ‘How I Got Over,’ features the kind of musicians you’d expect to find on indie-loving blogs, not a hip-hop album. Jim James of My Morning Jacket sings the chorus on the Roots’ revamp of Monsters of Folk’s ‘Dear God’; the female half of Dirty Projectors (Amber Coffman, Angel Deradoorian and Haley Dekle) chant on the dreamy opener, ‘A Peace of Light’; and singer/harpist Joanna Newsom delivers the hook on ‘Right On.’
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