Dennis appears regularly with his quartet at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit, Michigan. The next date is May 19, 2007. Start time is 9:30pm.  See Clubs and Concerts for details.

A former Funk Brother, Dennis has played guitar on over 100 soul music gold records at Motown in Detroit with artists such as The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, and The Four Tops. He has recorded in LA with artists such as Quincy Jones, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves, and Ringo Starr. Dennis has recorded with George Clinton and also played on many Northern Soul records at Golden World Studios like Real Humdinger by J.J. Barnes and Open the Door to your Heart by Darrel Banks.

Dennis has two international top ten hits himself with Scorpio and Taurus. He has written a movie theme, Black Belt Jones, and has written a book about his life entitled, Guitars, Bars, and Motown Super Stars. (Available - University of Michigan Press in the USA and Canada and Bee Cool Publishing in London, England.) Dennis has also appeared in the documentary, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, the PBS Special, Rhythm, Love and Soul and From the Heart - The Four Tops 50th Anniversary TV Special.   

Latest News - Four Tops DVD - From the Heart     

The new Four Tops DVD shown on ABC and PBS will be released by Studio Image Entertainment in the US on May 2, 2006. Dennis played with the Four Tops Band along with jazz sax player, James Carter. 

Best Funk Artist/Band: Dennis Coffey

"Dennis Coffey has done it all. This funk guitar mastermind is a session player extraordinaire, appearing on cuts from The Temptations and Edwin Starr and releasing funk-classic solo records that have been a gold mine for the hip-hop generation - The Beastie Boys, Public Enemy and LL Cool J have sampled his discs. He's not even done yet - Coffey still gigs around town." Thanks to Real Detroit Magazine, March 22, 2006 Issue.

Dennis Coffey Links

Go to last post of the Music Forum and click on link to see rare live video of Marvin Gaye, Funk Brothers, James Jamerson, Earl Van Dyke, Bongo Eddie, and sax man, Eli Fountain.

Soulfuldetroit.com

Click below to see Dennis Coffey web page in London by David Flynn.

http://www.capitolsoulclub.homestead.com/denniscoffey.html

Purchase one of Dennis' jazz CDs by clicking on music and his name at:

http://www.djharvey.de - click on djharvey and click on vinyl to see additional Dennis Coffey and Mike Theodore album covers

www.rareearth.com/

www.johnniesuebridges.com

http://www.daveleedham.co.uk/

http://www.bankhousebooks.com

A special thanks to Lowell Boileau for helping me design this web site.

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