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The career of Bob James is long, varied and continues to evolve at every turn. From his first days in Marshall, Missouri, the music of Bob James has captivated audiences throughout the world. Discovered by Quincy Jones at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival inJames recorded his first solo album, Bold Conceptionsthat year for Mercury Records. He honed his skills working with Creed Taylor, working on albums for artists like Hank Crawford, Grover Washington, Jr, among others. While with CTI, James found great popular success overseeing significant hits for Paul Simon, Neil Diamond, Maynard Ferguson, and Kenny Loggins.
InJames finally recorded his own album, Onewhich launched a lifelong career of recording and performing live. After three more albums, James began his own label, Tappan Zee Records. This allowed James to spend more time in the studio, focusing on his own creative works. Bob composed all the original music used in that television series for its entire run. One On Onethe first in three collaborations with Earl Klugh, was awarded a Grammy in for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, and has sold over a million copies.
During this time, James set the standard for the smooth jazz sound in the late s. In James moved to Warner Bros Records, and kicked things off with Double Vision, a collaboration with David Sanborn, and produced by Tommy LiPuma.
Double Vision was another Grammy winner, selling over a million albums. While recording his album, Grand Piano CanyoninJames reunited with longtime friend, drummer Harvey Mason, Jr. It would also be the first time James would work with guitarist Lee Ritenour, and bassist Nathan East. This would be the start of something beautiful, as these early sessions ignited a spark which would engulf the Jazz world as Fourplay.
The Group would collaborate on a total of three albums, until when Ritenour left the group, and Larry Carlton took over. After 12 years, Carlton decided to delve further into his solo career, and the band brought in guitarist Chuck Loeb in James continued collaborating on separate projects with Earl Klugh, Cool and Kirk Whalum Joined At the Hip.
Both albums were nominated for Grammys. The album includes performances with Keiko Matsui, Joe Sample, Dave Holland, and Chuck Loeb. Fourplay released Heartfelt inand spent much of the year touring across the globe. The result was Take It From the Topa tribute to pianists who inspired James; Ahmad Jamal, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, and Oscar Peterson, among others. The very next year James was at it again, with Fourplay releasing Journey in Fourplay toured most of the year, culminating with a trip to South Africa in November of and a final tour stop in Bangkok, Thailand in December.
This project finally toured the U. James stayed busy inreleasing Urban Flamingo in February, and on April 7, was awarded the George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award by the Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards.
This tour literally took James around the world again with stops in Spain, London, California, Hong Kong, Japan, Kuala Lumpur, and Indonesia. InJames released a Christmas album with Hilary James, and another Fourplay album Energy.
Bob has maintained a commitment to sophisticated production and arrangements, while stretching out in different and new directions. This culminated with another busy year in with the release of The Very Best of Bob James. This again led James touring across Asia, Europe, and the U.
Fourplay was voted Best Group of the Year at the American Smooth Jazz Awards to wrap up a busy This led to the Jazz for Japan benefit album, and the Iwate benefit concert, headlined by James.
Later that same year, James released a collaboration with Savannah guitarist Howard Paul with Just Friends: The Hamilton Hall Sessions. Fourplay joined forces again the following year with the release of Esprit de Four.
In Quartette Humaine was released. This was the first creative collaboration between keyboardist-composer Bob James and alto saxophonist David Sanborn since their million-selling, Grammy-winning album, Double Visiontwenty-five years ago.
This same year also brought the first release from James and long time collaborator Nathan East, The New Coola masterful work of art which truly redefines the essence of cool.
While James is recognized as one of the progenitors of smooth jazzhis music has also had a profound effect on the history of hip hophaving been sampled often. You must be logged in to post a comment. Previous Play Pause Next. Please wait while albums and tracks are being loaded. Update Required To Play Media Update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. Follow Bob James BobJamesMusic. Click here to cancel reply.
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