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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 (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.
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]
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
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)
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.
Download QR code; Print/export ... Fourplay (Tracks 1–9) Bob James and Atsuko Yashima ... "All I Wanna Do" Smooth Jazz Songs 5 [2] 2013
Fourplay – producers (1–9, 11) Nathan East – producer (10) Marcel East – producer (10) Don Murray – engineer, mixing (1–9, 11) Moogie Canazio – mixing (10) Steve Mixdorf – mix assistant (10) Ken Freeman – additional engineer, ProTools engineer; Staffan Karlsson – additional engineer, ProTools engineer