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Fourplay: Let's Touch the Sky
by Jeff Winbush
For Fourplay, it's all a numbers game. 2011 marks the band's 20th anniversary, Let's Touch the Sky is their 12th album, and “new guy," Chuck Loeb is both Fourplay's third personnel change and third guitarist replacing Larry Carlton, who stepped in for Lee Ritenour in 1998.Personnel changes in long-established bands happen when a disgruntled ...
Toph-E & The Pussycats: No Ordinary Day
by Woodrow Wilkins
Toph-E & The Pussycats is a contemporary band with old-school ideas. Its repertoire combines jazz, funk and R&B properties. For No Ordinary Day, those elements are augmented by hints of Brazilian and Latin rhythms. Part of the group's name comes from a variation of drummer Christopher Parker's nickname, “Toph." Collectively, the group's members bring ...
Bob Baldwin: Never Can Say Goodbye: A Tribute to Michael Jackson
by Jeff Winbush
The connection between Michael Jackson and jazz seems tentative to non-existent until it's factored in he reached his greatest heights as an artist when collaborating with producer/arranger extraordinaire Quincy Jones. The unlikely pairing of Jackson and Jones brought out a degree of professionalism, maturity and poise in the late King of Pop that did not fully ...
Take Five With Ade Ishs
by AAJ Staff
Meet ade ishs: Ade Ishs (IPA: ʌdÉ iʃ) is a songwriter and a pianist currently residing in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in 1978 in Bandung, Indonesia. His playing style revolves around contemporary jazz, classical, and meditative. He has been compared with Lyle Mays, Keith Jarrett, and Dave Grusin.His latest album release ...
The Supercruise III - Capital Jazz Fest at Sea - From Baltimore to the Bahamas!
Capital Jazz Fest At Sea October 10-17, 2009 Third Edition of World’s Largest Jazz Cruise Features Singer/Songwriter Kem Introducing Music from his Eagerly Anticipated Third Album, Plus Joe Sample, Patti Austin, David Sanborn, Jonathan Butler, Brian Culbertson, Candy Dulfer and MORE! Lovers of good times and great contemporary jazz will come together once again ...
Precision High Jinks from a Veteran Jazz Quartet
During the final moments of their early set at the Blue Note on Monday night, the members of Fourplay engaged in a bit of musical horseplay. First Bob James, the keyboardist, tossed off a pithy phrase. Nathan East, the bassist, picked it up, followed in turn by the guitarist Larry Carlton and the drummer Harvey Mason. ...
Energy
By Fourplay
Label: Heads Up International
Released: 2008
Track listing: Fortune Teller; The Whistler; Ultralight; Cape Town; The Yes Club; Prelude for Lovers; Look Both Ways; Argentina; Comfort Zone; Sebastian.
Nocturnal Mission
By Fourplay
Label: Provolone
Released: 2008
Track listing: Night on the Prowl; Lady's Night; Do You Come Here Often?; Dance the Night Away, Do You, Miss September?; Slip Into Something Comfortable; E. D. Blues; Alone Again (Naturally); Ms. Pinky.
Fourplay: Energy
by Douglas Payne
Fourplay is as much a conundrum as a contrivance. Their punning name suggests sexy jazz--and both levels are sometimes achieved--but if this collective's aim of producing what is, after all, supposed to be “pretty music" meets its goal, it may sell millions but it rarely rises above agreeable (for those paying attention) or merely listenable (for ...
Fourplay: Energy
by Woodrow Wilkins
Energy: a word that means power or force. It's appropriate that Energy is also the title of Fourplay's debut with Heads Up.Fourplay, a double entendre, is the quartet of Bob James, Nathan East, Harvey Mason and Larry Carlton. Each, an individual band leader or session sideman in his own right, the four spend part ...
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