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James was looking for a bass player while recording the album Grand Piano Canyon (Warner Bros., 1990) with drummer Harvey Mason and guitarist Lee Ritenour. Mason and Ritenour suggested Nathan East . After working with them for a while, James suggested they form a band, which resulted in the contemporary jazz quartet Fourplay .
Touchdown is the sixth album by Bob James, released in 1978 on his Tappan Zee label thru Columbia.. The album's title is a reference to this being James' sixth solo album (a touchdown being worth six points in American football), a pattern also followed by his previous album Heads (featuring a five cent coin on its cover) and next album Lucky Seven.
The Rhodes features in "Angela", the 1978 instrumental theme from the sitcom Taxi by Bob James. [69] The French band Air make regular use of the Rhodes piano in their recordings. [70] German pianist and composer Nils Frahm uses a Rhodes piano extensively in his studio and live performances.
BJ4 is the fourth album by jazz pianist Bob James.Released in 1977, the album charted at number three on the Jazz Album Charts. This would be his last CTI album before starting his label Tappan Zee Records, named for one of the tracks on this album.
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"Jazz Jam" was a throwaway track assembled by James for the engineers to balance their recording levels. "Jazz Jam" remained unreleased until Bob James found it while re-releasing the album for the Japanese market. "Jazz Jam" was remastered for the 30th anniversary release of the album in 2009 in the US and Europe including the UK.
Bob James – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, Oberheim Polyphonic synthesizer, arrangements and conductor; Hiram Bullock – electric guitar (1, 4-6) Eric Gale – electric guitar (2, 3) Steve Khan – acoustic guitar (3) Richard Resnicoff – acoustic guitar (5, 6) Neil Jason – bass (1, 2, 4, 5) Gary King – bass (3, 6) Steve Gadd – drums ...
Its sixteen-bar form starts with two repeats of a four-bar phrase starting on the song's E minor tonic i chord followed by a V 7 –I to C major and a ii–V 7 in the last bar to return to the first i chord: 𝄆 E m7 𝄀 G 7 𝄀 C maj7 𝄀 F ♯ m7 B 7 𝄇 The third four-bar phrase's last bar is substituted with F 7 (the tritone sub of the ...