Limited MQA-CD + Blu-ray edition. Feel Like Making LIVE! Includes James's most well known hits like 'Angela', 'Maputo', 'Westchester Lady' and 'Nautilus' as well as an instrumental cover of Elton John 's 'Rocket Man'. This new jazz trio live-in-the-studio concert film was stylishly filmed in 4K and recorded in high resolution audio and is available as a MQA-CD with Blu-ray…
In the eyes of the rap generation, an older musician's hipness is often defined by how many times he or she has been sampled for beats and breaks. That means that keyboard wizard Bob James - whose records have been sampled a staggering 1,435 times, according to the website WhoSampled - is a bona fide legend and cooler than cool…
Bob James-Grammy Award-winning Jazz keyboardist, arranger, record producer, record executive, and founding member of Fourplay, returns with a new album, Espresso, his first solo-led project in 12 years. Album tunes, penned by James, reflect the same inventiveness and musical fluency that persuaded Quincy Joines to become his mentor and champion back in 1963. His expressiveness through both writing and performance permeates the rocking minor-key blues of "Bulgogi," the definitive cool jazz of "Topside," the funk strut of "Submarine," the whispered beauty of "Promenade," the turbulent, more complex yet supremely listenable "Mojito Ride" and every other moment on Espresso.
Impromptu is the long awaited fourth album from acclaimed Jazz pianist Bob Mamet. His previous collaborations with artists such as Alex Acuna, Larry Carlton, Eric Marienthal, Gerald Albright, and David Benoit led Jazziz magazine to proclaim “Mamet is a brilliant composer [who gives] his players an intelligent, thoughtful, and dynamic landscape in which to work.”
Bold Conceptions is the debut trio album by Bob James made on August 13, 1962. Quincy Jones rushed to record the little-known Bob James Trio when it won the 1962 Collegiate Jazz Festival competition. For the record date, James chose to strike a balance between jazz and pop standards and experimentation with unusual forms of improvisation. The result of James's maiden studio effort augured a dazzlingly successful, multitalented career for him as pianist, arranger, producer and film composer.