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The Best of Fourplay is a compilation album by American smooth jazz quartet Fourplay, released in 1997. The 2020 SACD remastered edition of the album includes the bonus track, 'The Closer I Get To You,' a duet between Patti Austin and Peabo Bryson.
Fourplay is the debut album by the American smooth jazz group Fourplay released in 1991 on Warner Bros. records. The album went to number 1 [2] on the Contemporary Jazz charts, number 16 [3] on the R&B charts and number 97 [4] on the US Billboard 200. As an album, Fourplay has also been certified Gold in the US by the RIAA. [5]
Fourplay (stylized as fOURPLAY) is a contemporary American smooth jazz quartet. The original members of the group were Bob James (keyboards), Lee Ritenour (guitars), Nathan East (bass), and Harvey Mason (drums). [1] In 1997, Lee Ritenour left the group and Fourplay chose Larry Carlton as his replacement.
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Fourplay Bob James – Yamaha C7 MIDI grand piano , keyboards, synthesizers, programming, synthesizer orchestrations, arrangements (4, 8) Lee Ritenour – electric guitars, classical guitar , guitar synthesizer , additional synthesizer and computer programming, arrangements (3)
The list differs from the 2004 version, with 26 songs added, all of which are songs from the 2000s except "Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G., released in 1994. The top 25 remained unchanged, but many songs down the list were given different rankings as a result of the inclusion of new songs, causing consecutive shifts among the songs listed in 2004.
Tom Hull dismissed the album as a "dud" in his "Jazz Consumer Guide" for The Village Voice in September 2004. [3] In a commentary published on his website, he explained, "The old white guys (pianist Bob James, guitarist Larry Coryell) here haven't stretched out in decades, but toss off better licks than your average smooth jazz setup; the not-so-old black guys in the so-called rhythm section ...
Fourplay. Bob James – keyboards; Larry Carlton – guitars; Nathan East – bass, vocals; Harvey Mason – drums; Additional Personnel. Ken Freeman – programming (1–8, 10, 11, 12) Christian "Tian" Salyer – programming (9) LeDon Bishop – additional backing vocals (5)