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Urban Flamingo

Label: KOCH Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Choose Me; Miles A Head; Skidaway; Urban Flamingo; Lay Down With You; Fresh Start; Make It More Blue; Bobary Coast; Endless Time; Wingapo.

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Article: Interview

Bob James: Following His Heart

Read "Bob James: Following His Heart" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


If you've listened to contemporary jazz and its relatives over the last 30-plus years, chances are you've come across pianist Bob James. In fact, you don't have to be a jazz fan to have heard his music. He scored the soundtrack to the television series Taxi, including the hit theme song, “Angela. His career has placed ...

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Article: Album Review

Bob James: Urban Flamingo

Read "Urban Flamingo" reviewed by Tracey Nolan


Bob James has never decided whether he's a jazz musician or an R&B musician. He doesn't have to--he can be both, simultaneously, playing funky, infectious tunes that are melodic and groove hard. Urban Flamingo, his most recent effort, could be written off simply as “lifestyle music," or smooth jazz doomed to become background ambience at wine ...

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Take It From the Top

Label: KOCH International Jazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: Billy Boy, Straighten Up and Fly Right, Downtown, Tenderly, Nardis, Poinciana, Caravan, Soul Eyes, Django.

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Article: Album Review

Grover Washington, Jr.: Mister Magic

Read "Mister Magic" reviewed by Trevor MacLaren


For anyone who enjoys taking bites from the now forbidden fruits of jazz, smooth jazz has probably crossed your palate once or twice. Just as rock music fans treat adult contemporary with certain disdain, so do jazz fans in regards to smooth. It is certainly easy to see why. The arrangements are flooded with lush pop ...

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Article: Album Review

Bob James Trio: Take It From the Top

Read "Take It From the Top" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


Bob James, one of the most popular jazz artists of all time, has over the course of the past 35 years elected to treat his older fans with an album of all acoustic songs from the Great American Songbook, tunes that are associated with jazz pianists who influenced him over the years. It seems that this ...

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Morning, Noon & Night

Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 2002

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Dancing On The Water

Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 2001

Album

Forecast [24bit Remastering, Kudu Best 12 series]

Label: Kudu
Released: 2001
Track listing: Killing Me Softly With His Song; Cleopatra; Dindi; White Moth; Tonsue Corte; Forecast.

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Joy Ride

Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 1999


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