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James Poyser
Poyser at the Black Lily Film & Music Festival in 2007
Background information
Birth name
James Jason Poyser[1]
Also known as
Soul Glo
I Don't Want Any Trouble, I Just Want to Get Paid
I Gotta Eat
Make Sure I Get Credit For This
Y'all Goin to Pay Me, Right?
Downtown Jimmy Brown
Jimmy Baseball[2]
Origin
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genres
Neo soul
progressive soul[3]
soul
hip hop
jazz
pop
rock
film
gospel[4]
Occupation(s)
Record producer
songwriter
multi-instrumentalist
Instrument(s)
Keyboards
bass
drums
percussion
guitar
vocals
Years active
1993–present
Member of
The Roots, The Tonight Show Band
Formerly of
Soulquarians
The Soultronics
The Randy Watson Experience
Musical artist
James Jason Poyser (born January 30th, 1967) is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has been a member of the hip hop band The Roots since 2009, and plays with The Roots in the house band for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and formerly, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.[5][6][7]
^"ACE Repertory".
^"James Poyser". Discogs.
^Cochrane, Naima (26 March 2020). "2000: A Soul Odyssey". Billboard. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
^"James Poyser on working with The Roots, Common, Erykah and Kanye". Red Bull Music Academy Daily. 27 January 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
James Jason Poyser (born January 30th, 1967) is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He...
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and JamesPoyser) 5. "Cleva" (featuring Roy Ayers) (produced with Erykah Badu and JamesPoyser) 7. "Booty" (produced with Erykah Badu and JamesPoyser) 8...
including drummer Questlove of hip hop group The Roots, keyboardist JamesPoyser, trumpeter Roy Hargrove, and Welsh bassist Pino Palladino, had previously...
Experience is a supergroup which includes hip-hop/R&B musicians Questlove and JamesPoyser. The group is named after an incidental character in the 1988 film Coming...
members of the R&B collective the Soulquarians, most notably Questlove, JamesPoyser and Pino Palladino, with guest guitarist Jesse Johnson. The set was composed...
(2), Ike Lee III (3,9), Richard Nichols (4-5, 12), Bob Power (2, 11), JamesPoyser (5, 7, 12), The Roots (4-5, 12), Tone The Backbone (6) Executive producer:...
the production group Freakquency , consisting of Badu, Rashad Smith, JamesPoyser, and RC Williams. Prominently influenced by old-school 1970s and 80s...
Automator, Roni Size, DJ Premier and Questlove with production partner JamesPoyser. The album never came to fruition, and de la Rocha started a new collaboration...
and producer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, keyboardists Kamal Gray and JamesPoyser, percussionist F. Knuckles, guitarist Captain Kirk Douglas, sousaphonist...
2008 album, Lay It Down, was produced by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and JamesPoyser. It became Green's first album to reach the top 10 since the early 1970s...
Each note is accompanied by reflective piano music from The Roots' JamesPoyser, and usually results in a comedic exchange between Fallon and Higgins...
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