Joe Messina, one of the star guitarists on the front line of Motown’s studio band, the Funk Brothers, died early Monday at his son Joel Messina’s Northville home, his son confirmed.

Joe Messina, a jazz guitarist whose work with the Funk Brothers helped build the bedrock of the Motown sound, died Monday in Northville. He was 93. Messina, a longtime Warren resident, died at 4 a ...

An exhilarating and astutely executed walk down memory lane, Motown's long-ignored musicians continue to extend the Funk Brothers ... s “Mercy Mercy Me.” Joe Messina (“Dancing in the Street, ...

Joe Messina, Jack Ashford. Slutsky's collaboration with the Funk Brothers resulted in a book, "Standing in the Shadows of Motown," and later the film of the same name. After the release of the ...

"The Funk Brothers are looking down at us. They're here," he said. "Every time I start talking about these guys, I get so emotional." Ailing guitarist Joe Messina watched the ceremony online from ...

With the death of Willis, only guitarist Joe Messina and percussionist Jack Ashford remain from the seminal, core lineup of the Funk Brothers, the revered Motown house band that largely worked in ...

MONROE — For five decades, Messina Concrete has provided a solid foundation for residential builders, commercial developers and government agencies. Started in 1974 by brothers Frank and Joe ...

The surviving half-dozen members of the Funk Brothers - the self-named studio ... egoless men in red jackets on stage - guitarists Joe Messina and Eddie Willis, pianist Joe Hunter, drummer Uriel ...

Randy Napoleon may represent the new school of Detroit guitar players emerging from the lineage of Kenny Burrell and (Motown) Funk Brothers Dennis Coffey and Joe Messina, but his approach and sound on ...