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One is the first solo album, and third album overall, by jazz keyboardist Bob James.It was an important album in the early smooth jazz genre and is famous for its end track, "Nautilus", which became important to hip hop as one of the most sampled tracks in American music.
The album spent 63 weeks on the Billboard charts, peaking at No. 16 on the R&B albums [2] chart and No. 50 on the Top Pop Albums chart. [3] In 1987, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental [4] and the song "Since I Fell for You" earned a nomination for Al Jarreau in the category Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male.
James was looking for a bass player while recording the album Grand Piano Canyon (Warner Bros., 1990) with drummer Harvey Mason and guitarist Lee Ritenour. Mason and Ritenour suggested Nathan East . After working with them for a while, James suggested they form a band, which resulted in the contemporary jazz quartet Fourplay .
Heads is the fifth album by the jazz musician Bob James, released in October 1977. It was his first album released on his newly formed Tappan Zee label, which was distributed by Columbia Records . All of his Tappan Zee albums (which includes his CTI back-catalog) are distributed by E1 Music .
CTI Records (Creed Taylor Incorporated) is a jazz record label founded in 1967 by Creed Taylor.CTI was a subsidiary of A&M before becoming independent in 1970. Its first album was A Day in the Life by guitarist Wes Montgomery in 1967.
The Sun-Sentinel stated that "Bob James' effort to shed his image as the king of Muzak jazz partially succeeds on his latest offering." [4] The Washington Post deemed the album a "made-for-background batch of West Coast fake funk and fusion." [5] On AllMusic, Jason Elias wrote: "Obsession displays the often chilly sounds of period synthesizers.
In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...
Explosions is an album by the Bob James Trio. It was recorded at Bell Sound Studios in New York City during May 1965, and was released later that year by ESP-Disk. On the album, James is featured on piano, and is joined by bassist Barre Phillips and drummer Robert Pozar. The album also features tape collages by composers Gordon Mumma and Robert ...