Music is music. If it moves you, it moves you. If it doesn’t, then it doesn’t.” So simple, yet so profound—which makes a lot of sense coming from a bass player. Gail Ann Dorsey, one of the greatest session bass players of all-time, came of age in an all-Black neighborhood in 1960s West Philadelphia. The “surprise” baby of the family, she grew up surrounded by the music of her older siblings, soaking in the sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Olivia Newton-John and The Carpenters. “I always knew I wanted to play music,” she says. “It was a…
