Sam’s Jams: How J Dilla, Detroit Hip-Hop Pioneer, Changed Modern Music
WDET Artist: J Dilla Track: Two Can Win, Don't Cry, and many others.... Detroit has an important role in hip-hop...
Sam’s Jams: This Track from Detroit Techno Pioneers Changed Music History
WDET Artist: Cybotron Track: Alleys of Your Mind (1981) In Chicago, a new genre of music called House emerged in...
Sam’s Jams: This Funk Songwriter Also Hand-Painted Signs in Detroit
WDET This week at 101.9 WDET, we're celebrating 70 years of music here in Detroit. Each day, Sam's Jams will...
Sam’s Jams: Eddie Russ and Deep Jazz Cuts from Michigan
WDET This week at 101.9 WDET, we're celebrating 70 years of music here in Detroit. Each day, Sam's Jams will...
Sam’s Jams: Break Out Your Dancing Shoes For This Chart-Topping 1970’s Single
WDET Artist: David Bendeth Track: "Feel the Real" from Adrenalin (1979) David Bendeth is a record producer and musician born in London,...
Sam’s Jams: Jan Hammer “Don’t You Know”
WDET Son of the famous Czech Jazz vocalist, Vlasta Průchová, Jan Hammer is an important Czech-American musician, composer and record...
Sam’s Jams: Evelyn “Champagne” King “I’m In Love”
WDET Evelyn “Champagne” King is a vocalist and songwriter from the Bronx, New York. She is known for her hits...
Sam’s Jams: Promise “I’m Not Ready For Love”
WDET Promise is a four piece vocal group who began singing together when they were eight years old. By the...
Listen to Career Club Perform New EP “Cents” From WDET’s Studio A
Career Club are an experimental pop-rock duo of musicians Mark Sleeman and Leah Barnett, and they came to Studio A...
Sam’s Jams: Jackie Dee “Who”
WDET Dave Hamilton was a producer and musician in Detroit who worked as a session musician at Motown during the...
New Book Explores the History of Jazz in Detroit
A new book from former Detroit Free Press Arts reporter and critic Mark Stryker looks into the history of jazz in Detroit....
This 70’s One Album Wonder Has Been Sampled by Erykah Badu, A Tribe Called Quest
Meta Stange/WDET RAMP (an acronym for "Roy Ayers Music Productions") was formed by Roy Ayers in 1976. Ayers was not...