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Bob James, Nathan East & Yamaha Team Up
We’re very proud to announce that we will release a duet album by extraordinary musicians Bob James and Nathan East in the Fall of 2015.
Stay tuned right here for progress reports on recording, and more news as the album comes together.
Here’s a studio shot with Bob, Nathan and producer Chris Gero…More soon!!!
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2015 NAMM Yamaha Show
NAMM Yamaha Show: Jamie Cullum, Bob James, Nathan East, and Chris Gero perform at NAMM 2015, held in Nashville, Tennessee at the end of January.
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Fourplay Records 25th Anniversary Album at Sunset Sound
February found Fourplay back together in the studio to record their 25th anniversary album, Silver, at the place where it all began…Sunset Sound.
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Japan Release of ‘LIVE at the Milliken Auditorium’
Bob James & Nathan East Performance @ NAMM
Bob James and Nathan East met up at NAMM at the end of January to get together with some friends.
Held at the Anaheim Convention Center, the start studded weekend long event presented the opportunity for some terrific collaborations.
Including a special performance featuring Jamie Cullum, Bob James, Nathan East, and Chris Gero in on the act.
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Happy New Year!
Happy 75th Birthday to Bob James!
Over time, things change. Styles evolve. Clothes, hair, production, and music itself.
The icing on the cake may change flavors, but if you get down the cake itself, it is the same as it has always been.
The soul of music is the same, providing the nourishment to uplift our lives, and ambition to dream.
It is said that there are two days that are great in a person’s life…the day we are born, and the day we discover why.
We wish a special 75th birthday to Bob James.
Thank you for all the positivity you have brought to the world…
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Happy Holidays from Bob James
As the warmth of fireplaces, family, and friends bring us together this holiday season, Bob James would like to say thank you for another amazing year.
There are so may terrific people that make each day possible, especially the fans!
Wishing each, and every one of you, a holiday season filled with love and joy… ~ Bob James
Jazz on the Tube: An Archive of 2,000 Classic Jazz Videos…and Much More!
What is the current state of jazz, you ask? You might ask genre-bending musician/producer/rapper Stephen Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, who also happens to be the nephew of John and Alice Coltrane. In a recent interview, Ellison lamented “it’s all gone quite stale over the past 20 years” and imagined that if Miles Davis “came back to Earth and heard a lot of these jazz cats, he’d be mad. He’d literally be mad, and he’d just go back to where he was dead at.” Given Miles’ infamous temper and disdain for the conventional, this isn’t hard to imagine at all. But whether you could call today’s jazz “elevator music” is a point I leave to others to debate.
Ah, but what is the state of digital jazz preservation? Now, that is a question I can answer, at least in some small part, by pointing you toward Jazz on the Tube. This online resource bills itself as three wonderful things in one: “a searchable database of thousands of carefully hand picked and annotated jazz videos”; “free Video-of-the-Day service”; and “up-to-date directory of jazz clubs, jazz festivals, and jazz organizations world-wide.” You’ll also find there podcasts and worldwide listings of jazz radio stations. But as its title implies, its most fulsome service offers a list of 2,000 videos from an A-Z of several hundred artists—Abbey Lincoln to Zoot Sims.