Bob and Fourplay are in the studio working on the new album, and had a special visit from Usher. He stopped through recently to see how things were going, and to hang out with the guys for a bit…
Browsing Category News
Bob James Ticket Giveaway @ Yoshi’s in Oakland!
Tickets Available for Miner Family Winery Dinner and Concert!
Tickets still available! Follow link for more info…. Winemaker’s Dinner and Concert
SOLD OUT!!! Feb. 3-4 @ the Jazz Corner
Bob James with Howard Paul & Delbert Felix is officially SOLD OUT for this weekend at the Jazz Corner in Hilton Head, SC!
Fourplay Heats Up Japan this Holiday Season
Bob James: All Access
Altair & Vega: A Conversation With Bob James
Mike Ragogna: Hello Bob.
Bob James: It’s great to be speaking with you, Mike.
MR: Thank you very much, and thank you for spending some time with me today.
BJ: I’m speaking to you from Traverse City, Michigan.
MR: Is Traverse City where you’re set up? Is that where your label, Tappan Zee, is?
BJ: Sort of. Tappan Zee has dwindled down to basically being just an expanded version of me. It’s not really a record company, a big warehouse or anything like that. Traverse City is my home now, and most of the year it gets awfully cold here in the Winter time, so I escape down to Savannah for three or four months in the Winter time.
Bob James & Keiko Matsui Weave Four Hands & a Piano with “Altair & Vega”
A simply delightful dual disc, with the video concert including three selections also on the CD plus three different ones. The pair of pianists come from quite different backgrounds: James fronts the band Fourplay, and Matsui performs and records more jazz-oriented material under her own name. The two have resurrected what once was a very popular family music-making tradition—the cozy setup of two pianists sitting on the same piano bench and playing music especially written for four hands at the keyboard. Schubert, Schumann, Mozart and others wrote many such pieces, and others arranged popular solo piano selections and even some orchestral selections for four-hand performance. This is a combination of the East and West in music and falls into that ever-expanding area that partakes of both classical and jazz genres but is really neither.