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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.
Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) [1] is an American jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote "Angela", the theme song for the TV show Taxi. [2]
Mark Isham "Theme from Chicago Hope" Bob James - "Angela" (Theme from Taxi) Al Jarreau - "Theme from Moonlighting" Waylon Jennings - "Good Ol' Boys" (Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard) Carly Rae Jepsen - "Everywhere You Look" (Theme from Fuller House) The Jets - "Theme from Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
The album was recorded at Mediasound, Sound Palace, and SoundMixers Studios in New York City in 1979.Tape mastering took place at CBS Recording Studio in New York. The album was released in late 1979 by Tappan Zee, the label owned by Bob James, promoted and distributed by Columbia in the US and CBS in the UK.
Many artists sampled the drums and bell part of the intro to the track "Take Me to the Mardi Gras", an instrumental cover of the Paul Simon song.It has since become a widely recognized drum break, similar to another break from another instrumental, "Ashley's Roachclip".
The New Cool is a jazz album by pianist Bob James and bassist Nathan East, both members of the group Fourplay released in September 2015 by the Yamaha Entertainment Group. . The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and No. 5 on the Billboard Jazz Albums ch
One is the first solo album, and third album overall, by jazz keyboardist Bob James.It was an important album in the early smooth jazz genre and is famous for its end track, "Nautilus", which became important to hip hop as one of the most sampled tracks in American music.
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 ...