Name that player....

[Bilbo]

I need the knowledge of the hive mind. I have been asked for a Stevie Wonder/Aretha Franklin transcription from a YouTube video but I don't know who the player is. First thoughts are Freddy Washington but I am not at all sure. Can anyone help identify the guy? Sounds like Jameson but not.

 

https://youtu.be/pTnCHP-9Wdo?feature=shared

[Bilbo]

He is helpfully stood right behind Stevie so we see him a lot but I don't recognise him.

[Hellzero]

It's George Duke on keyboards, and the bassist plays a Marcus Miller Fender signature bass, so maybe Freddy Washington is right.

[Bilbo]

I think I have only ever seen one picture of RFW and that is the one in the Shadows of Motown book. Could be...

[Hellzero]

Check Nathan Watts as he was the official bass player for Stevie Wonder in 2005 (between two diets, he could have looked that way). 😉

[itu]

The player here uses eyeglasses, I think Freddy doesn't. Getty Images has some pictures from the show. 

[Hellzero]

Furthermore Freddie Washington doesn't look like Nathan Watts at all, because I'm 99% confident that it's Nathan Watts.

 

 

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[Bilbo]

I am going with Nathan unless someone can convince me otherwise!

[Hellzero]

Furthermore Nathan Watts was the official musical director of Stevie Wonder back then and during years.