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His son Brendan Willing James (born 1979) is the bassist and vocalist with the band Grizfolk. In early 2021, album format videos for "Dusk Summons the Sky" by Shatterminx and "The Lost Album" by Swan, showcasing James's pre and post Montrose recordings, were posted to YouTube. James died in February 2021 at the age of 68. [6]
Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) [1] is an American jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote "Angela", the theme song for the TV show Taxi. [2]
Bob James (rock singer) (1952–2021), American singer, frontman of Montrose, 1974–76 Bob James (country singer) (born 1960), English singer, former representative of CMT Europe, 1995–97 Bob James, saxophonist and guitar player for British progressive rock band Skin Alley
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.
It is the second Montrose album to feature singer Bob James and keyboardist Jim Alcivar, and features bassist Randy Jo Hobbs on three songs. The remainder of the bass parts were supplied by Jim Alcivar via the keyboard and there was no bassist on the Jump on It tour. Jack Douglas produced the album.
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."
Impressive, given the singer's fabled reclusiveness. Consider that the film's star Timothée Chalamet (who spent many years preparing to sing and play like Dylan) only heard from his doppelgänger ...
Bob James was born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England.In 1998, James was involved with Bradley Varecha's "Don't Let the Home Farm Die" [1] for Farm Bureau. [2] The song aired as a music video on Thanksgiving morning 1998 on U.S. Farm Report.