Uriel Jones: The Laid-Back Drummer on Grapevine and Ain't No Mountain

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Uriel Jones, born in Detroit in 1934, entered Motown's Funk Brothers as a backup for Benny Benjamin, whose health and reliability were failing just as the label's output soared. Moving up alongside Richard Pistol Allen, Jones had to deliver radio-ready takes in the Snake Pit from charts he had never seen. Influenced by Art Blakey, he did not imitate Benjamin's pushing style. Arrangers described his playing as open, laid back and the funkiest of the studio drummers, placing the beat a hair behind the click and leaving room for James Jamerson's bass to roam.

His credits include Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through the Grapevine, the Temptations' Ain't Too Proud to Beg and I Can't Get Next to You, Jimmy Ruffin's What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, the Miracles' The Tracks of My Tears and I Second That Emotion, and Stevie Wonder's For Once in My Life. Like Benjamin he built a mixed Ludwig, Slingerland, Rogers and Gretsch kit with Zildjian cymbals to cut through dense arrangements. Decades of anonymity ended with the film Standing in the Shadows of Motown, which brought him a late-career resurgence.

He played on both the 1967 Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell Ain't No Mountain High Enough and Diana Ross's 1970 remake.
On the Temptations' Cloud Nine he shared drum duties with Spider Webb.
In 2008 he recorded at Studio A in Dearborn Heights for a Carl Dixon Band Tracks tribute session.
That session reunited him with Spider Webb, Bob Babbitt and Dennis Coffey, with arranger David Van De Pitte leading.
He died in March 2009 at 74 in a Dearborn hospital after complications from a heart attack.

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