Bob James


I haven’t listened to Bob James since 1980.

He has a new album out with his trio called ‘Rocketman’.

It is encoded in a great high resolution format.

Check it out on your subscription streaming platform.

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For all you Bob James fans I have Bob James Four & Touchdown on vinyl, 6 Bob James cd's and 12 FourPlay cd's I will be selling soon.

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I was and still are a huge fan of the Bob James CTI years with James working with Creed Taylor the wonderful producer and Rudy Van Gelder the fantastic recording engineer. Theses three together made some killer music in those years. James also arranged about 50% of the the CTI’s records in those days. Here is a link to Bob James CTI catalog of records he worked on.

Bob James CTI

In the May/June TAS there's a review of "Bob James: Feel Like Making Live!"

Bob keeps putting out albums.  I've even seen his album "Espresso" get a review in Stereophile or TAS, not sure which.  He's still a little too smooth for me, though.

czarivey  ..I'm pretty aware of all of Bob James' output since 1980.  

It's just that I moved on to primarily bop, bebop, hard bop and straight-ahead jazz.

All of Bob James' output since then as a sideman and leader has been of the smooth jazz variety, and I've moved on from that 40 years ago.  Smooth jazz was where the money was at.

Any Bob James fan can spot his sound signature in a minute if he's in the session, I haven't listened to him since the 80's.

Bob James was part of so many projects since 80s that you would really listen to at least some of those whether you wanted or not or whether you knew about those or not.

His solo career is just a small part