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...

Larry Coryell, Badi Assad, John Abercrombie - ...

Beautifully recorded in late 2002 in New York’s St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Three Guitars is a ...

Beautifully recorded in late 2002 in New York’s St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Three Guitars is a must-hear summit meeting between three extraordinary fretboard masters: Larry Coryell, Badi Assad - then a rising star of the Brazilian music scene - and John Abercrombie. Despite their differences in age, nationality, genre, gender, and musical sensibility, the three musicians found common ground in what Coryell described as a “unique intersection of creativity.” Coryell and Abercrombie, pioneers...

JAZZ SIDE OF THE MOON (One Step Pressing LP)

A homage to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023, Ja...

A homage to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023, Jazz Side Of The Moon is one of the brightest jewels in the catalog of noted audiophile label Chesky Records. It was recorded in 2007 in St. Peter’s Church, New York, by a jazz supergroup consisting of organist Sam Yahel, drummer Ari Hoenig, guitarist Mike Moreno, and tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake. The quartet put a fresh spin on an old classic, giving it a transformative makeover that honored the ...

Harvey Mason - Changing Partners (CD) Pre-order...

Changing Partners is a straight-ahead jazz trio album by the legendary Grammy-nominated drummer a...

Changing Partners is a straight-ahead jazz trio album by the legendary Grammy-nominated drummer and composer Harvey Mason, one of the most recorded drummers of all time in any genre. A former member of Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters band - for whom he co-wrote the hit ‘Chameleon’ - and a co-founder of the contemporary jazz group Fourplay, Mason leads different trios using a rotating cast of musical collaborators; they include jazz luminaries Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Dave Grusin, Gonzalo Rub...