Bob James – One (Remastered) (1974/2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:34:08 minutes | Full Scans included | 1,41 GB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Evosound (Hong Kong) – EVSA569S
One is the second solo album by jazz keyboardist Bob James. It was a pioneering album in the smooth jazz genre and is famous for its closing track, “Nautilus”, which became important to hip hop as one of the most sampled tracks in American music.
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Bob James – Jazz Hands (2023)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 50:29 minutes | 2.08 GB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Evosound – EVSA2484S
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 legendary hip-hop turntablist DJ Jazzy Jeff, who rose to fame as half of the hit-making ’80s/’90s rap duo, DJ Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince, early samplers of James’ music. Blending cool jazz tropes with funky dance floor grooves, blues-tinged ballads, cinematic mood pieces, and sensuous slow jams, Jazz Hands is the Missouri pianist’s most eclectic album of his long career. Simultaneously classic and contemporary, it’s Bob James at his majestic, ground-breaking, and timeless best. The album has been nominated for the GRAMMY AWARDS® for the category of “Best Contemporary Instrumental Album” – proving that the Jazz legend has no plans to slow down anytime soon.
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Till Brönner & Bob James – On Vacation (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:20 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks
Together with jazz legend and Grammy award winner Bob James, trumpeter Till Brönner – Germany’s most successful jazz musician – has transformed holiday moods into a multi-layered sound painting. Close your eyes and dream: “On Vacation is first and foremost a feeling for me and we have transformed this feeling into music,” explains Brönner
Virtuosic, full of creative love for refined details and at the same time of the greatest possible nonchalance, Brönner and James create an imaginative and sonorous music for inspiration, reflection and daydreaming.
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Bob James – Jazz Hands (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:08 minutes | 535 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © evosound
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 turntablist DJ Jazzy Jeff, who rose to fame as half of the hit-making ’80s/’90s rap duo, DJ Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince, early samplers of James’ music. Blending cool jazz tropes with funky dance floor grooves, blues-tinged ballads, cinematic mood pieces, and sensuous slow jams, Jazz Hands is the Missouri pianist’s most eclectic album of his long career. Simultaneously classic and contemporary, it’s Bob James at his majestic, ground-breaking, and timeless best.
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Bob James, David Sanborn – Quartette Humaine (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:32 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Okeh – Sony Masterworks
Quartette Humaine is Bob James and David Sanborn’s first collaboration since their celebrated GRAMMY award-winning album, Double Vision. The set features seven new originals and two James-arranged standards. Steve Gadd and James Genus join the duo. The album is filled with melodic improvisations and beautiful tones. An absolute masterpiece.
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Bob James – Espresso (2018)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 58:39 minutes | 2,31 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 58:39 minutes | 1,13 GB
Genre: Jazz | Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover | © evosound
Long after establishing himself as one of America’s most accomplished composers, arrangers, and instrumentalists, multiple-Grammy winner, and founding member of Fourplay, Bob James achieves his longtime ambition to return to the trio format he embraced as as up and coming artist.
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Bob James Trio, Bob James – Feel Like Making LIVE! (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:59 minutes | 1,67 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © evosound
Alongside the same trio, bassist Michael Palazzolo and drummer Billy Kilson, that made 2018’s critically-acclaimed Espresso album, Feel Like Making Live! captures James performing a career-spanning selection of material live in the studio.
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Bob James, Nathan East – The New Cool (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:27 minutes | 562 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yamaha Entertainment Group
The New Cool from contemporary jazz icons (and fellow members of super-group Fourplay) Bob James and Nathan East. ‘The New Cool’ centers on jazz piano and bass duets as the vehicle for a diverse collection of original compositions and handpicked classics. Recorded entirely in Nashville it reveals James and East in a way that you have never heard them before.
Watch HDtracks’ interview with Bob James below:https://youtu.be/ecZc2ZonFPI
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Bob James, Kirk Whalum – Joined At The Hip (2019 Remastered) (2006/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:22:29 minutes | 883 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © evosound
Bob James learned the value of give and take between musicians, along with the fine art of collaboration, from his early experiences on the road with mentor Sarah Vaughan. Later, when he became an artist in his own right, he did more than simply take those lessons to heart – he built a great part of his storied career on landmark duet recordings with David Sanborn, Earl Klugh, and Fourplay. Remembering what it was like to be young, gifted, and hungry to learn, James not only became an icon to a new generation of contemporary jazz performers, but also personal mentor to one of the genre’s most respected young players, saxman Kirk Whalum. After many appearances on each other’s solo efforts since the mid-80’s, Whalum and James are now on equal terms, Joined at the Hip for a project more spontaneous and soulful than most of their recent output. Keeping that adventurous spontaneity going are the duo’s inventive support band of guitarist Jeff Golub, bassist Chris Walker, and drummer Billy Kilson – all inspired choices neither had previously worked with. The fresh approaches of these new collaborators helps make Joined at the Hip unique from any previous James/Whalum recording. Golub is particularly sharp, easing from rock distortion to funky blues while soloing with all the fiery intensity of his own two solo discs on the no-holds-barred “Out of the Cold.” He also adds edgy emotion to the dark tones of “Tell Me Something Nice.” Tilson captures the spirit of the project with his crucial input on the playful “Kicking Back.”
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Bob James – One (2021 Remastered) (1974/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:08 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © evosound
One is the third solo album 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.
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Bob James – Espresso (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:30 minutes | 619 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © evosound
Long after establishing himself as one of America’s most accomplished composers, arrangers, and instrumentalists, multiple-Grammy winner Bob James achieves his longtime ambition to return to the trio format he embraced as as up and coming artist.
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