Jazz

Fourplay -- Best of Fourplay - 2020 Remastered ...

First released in 1997, The Best Of Fourplay showcases the smooth jazz supergroup's signature sty...

First released in 1997, The Best Of Fourplay showcases the smooth jazz supergroup's signature style of memorable melodies, tasteful arrangements, and addictive, toe-tapping grooves. Besides choice album cuts from Fourplay's Warner Bros repertoire, the 13-track compilation includes the band’s hit versions of Marvin Gaye's After The Dance', fronted by the silky-voiced El De Barge, and the Isley Brothers 'Between The Sheets', featuring legendary soul singer, Chaka Khan. The new edition of the al...

Bob James -- Take Me To The Mardi Gras 7" vinyl...

Take Me to the Mardi Gras is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the four...

Take Me to the Mardi Gras is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the fourth single from his third studio album, There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973), released on Columbia Records. Smooth jazz keyboardist Bob James made an instrumental cover of the song for his 1975 album “Two", whose intro has since become a widely recognized drum break. Take Me to the Mardi Gras incorporates in its first four measures a bell-and-drum pattern that is one of hip hop's basic breakbeats. It ha...

Bob James Trio -- Espresso (MQA CD)

Grammy Award-winning Jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer Bob James returns with his f...

Grammy Award-winning Jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer Bob James returns with his first solo album in twelve years. While James is recognized as one of the progenitors of smooth jazz, his music has also had a profound effect on the history of other music genres and artists. “Nautilus” from 1974’s One is among the most sampled tracks in history. The Bob James Trio complete with drummer Billy Kilson laying down smooth beats, along with the sweet bass lines of Michael Palazollo, co...

Chuck Mangione - The Feeling’s Back (One Step P...

Released in 1999 by the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, The Feeling’s Back showed that flu...

Released in 1999 by the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, The Feeling’s Back showed that flugelhorn maestro Chuck Mangione - renowned for his trademark fedora hat and warm melodic lyricism - was still a force to be reckoned with in the jazz world. The son of an Italian American greengrocer, Rochester-born Mangione played hardbop in a group with his piano-playing brother before going solo in the mid-1960s. In 1978, he joined a small list of chart-busting elite jazz instrumentalists when h...

McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, Al Fost...

Recorded in 1991 for the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, New York Reunion is a thrilling m...

Recorded in 1991 for the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, New York Reunion is a thrilling meeting of jazz giants. McCoy Tyner, who rose to fame with the John Coltrane Quartet, is joined by nonpareil tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, the record-breaking double-bass maestro Ron Carter, and jazz drummer extraordinaire, Al Foster. The quartet reveals its extraordinary synergy through a remarkable blend of jazz standards and original compositions. Among the album’s many highlights is Henderso...

McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, Al Fost...

Recorded in 1991 for the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, New York Reunion is a thrilling m...

Recorded in 1991 for the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, New York Reunion is a thrilling meeting of jazz giants. McCoy Tyner, who rose to fame with the John Coltrane Quartet, is joined by nonpareil tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, the record-breaking double-bass maestro Ron Carter, and jazz drummer extraordinaire, Al Foster. The quartet reveals its extraordinary synergy through a remarkable blend of jazz standards and original compositions. Among the album’s many highlights is Henderso...