Jazz

Fourplay -- Between the Sheets (30th Anniversar...

Between the Sheets is the second studio album of the smooth jazz group Fourplay - comprised of a...

Between the Sheets is the second studio album of the smooth jazz group Fourplay - comprised of acclaimed jazz musicians Bob James (piano), Lee Ritenour (guitar), Nathan East (vocals/bass), and Harvey Mason (drums). The album is well-regarded as a defining album in the smooth jazz genre and was released in August 1993 to rapturous acclaim. The album is certified gold by the RIAA, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart and selling over 500,000 copies in the United States. The ...

Fourplay -- Fourplay (30th Anniversary Edition)...

There was no great cunning master plan that brought noted jazz instrumentalists Bob James (keyboa...

There was no great cunning master plan that brought noted jazz instrumentalists Bob James (keyboards), Lee Ritenour (guitar), Nathan East (bass) and Harvey Mason (drums) together to form a supergroup. Released in October 1991, Fourplay - aided by the success of the smash single 'After The Dance' - peaked at No. 1 in America's Contemporary Jazz charts for 33 weeks and sold over a million copies. It rose to No. 16 in the R&B rankings and No. 97 in America's list of top pop records, The Bill...

Bob James -- Jazz Hands (MQA-CD)

MQA-CD. GRAMMY® NOMINATED Jazz Hands is Bob James' third outing for evosound, following in the wa...

MQA-CD. GRAMMY® NOMINATED Jazz Hands is Bob James' third outing for evosound, following in the wake of 2018's Espresso and 2022's Feel Like Makin' LIVE. Produced by the pianist with his manager Sonny Abelardo, the ten-track album was mostly recorded during the months of the Covid pandemic and featured James in a number of different musical settings. It also features a stellar cameo from the ex-Gnarls Barkley singer CeeLo Green on the sensuous title track and includes production input from the...

Bob James - Jazz Hands (SACD)

Jazz Hands is Bob James' third outing for evosound, following in the wake of 2018's Espresso and...

Jazz Hands is Bob James' third outing for evosound, following in the wake of 2018's Espresso and 2022's Feel Like Makin' LIVE. Produced by the pianist with his manager Sonny Abelardo, the ten-track album was mostly recorded during the months of the Covid pandemic and featured James in a number of different musical settings. It also features a stellar cameo from the ex-Gnarls Barkley singer CeeLo Green on the sensuous title track and includes production input from the legendary hip-hop turnta...

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio -- A Shade Of Blue (MQA-CD)

Album Synopsis: Japanese Jazz legend Tsuyoshi Yamamoto’s new album, A Shade Of Blue, undoubtedly ...

Album Synopsis: Japanese Jazz legend Tsuyoshi Yamamoto’s new album, A Shade Of Blue, undoubtedly reflects his love of the piano trio, agroup configuration that in jazz history began in the 1940s with Nat King Cole and then was developed in the 50s by innovatorslike Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, and Bill Evans. Yamamoto’s highly experienced trio - which has a combined age of 215years - features bassist Hiroshi Kagawa (香川 裕史) and drummer Toshio Osumi (大隅 寿男). A Shade Of Blue reveals thethree mus...

Chantal Chamberland -- Temptation (SACD)

Temptation is a stellar example of creative courage. Given her large and loyal international audi...

Temptation is a stellar example of creative courage. Given her large and loyal international audience, powerhouse Canadian jazz vocalist Chantal Chamberland could easily have played it safe by delivering an album of Songbook standards sure to please the following she has built over the last two decades. Instead, a rigorous search for new and oft-unconventional material resulted in a generous collection of 13 songs for which the description 'eclectic' is an understatement. Her seventh full-len...