Mathieu Schreyer pays tribute to Leon Ware following his passing at age 77. Ware was a lauded songwriter, producer, singer and inspiration to many in the soul music community. Mathieu dedicated a ...

Leon Ware is a somewhat under-appreciated soul artist – he worked on the Maxwell album Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite and essentially created Marvin Gaye’s I Want You, among a bunch of other songwriting ...

His work helped fuel the careers of artists like Marvin Gaye, The Isley Brothers, Michael Jackson, and Ike and Tina Turner — and also provided a... One of the underheralded architects of soul music ...

I first met Stephen Brunner in 2005 through soul singer Leon Ware. Stephen and his brother had been playing with Leon for a while at that point and I had been busy working on Steve Spacek’s first solo ...