BJ4

by Bob James

BJ4 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 February 1977
  • Label: CTI
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:22
  • Community rating: 3.3/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Keyboardist and arranger Bob James delivers another cornerstone of instrumental jazz-funk on 'BJ4'. Featuring pristine CTI Records production, the album balances tight, highly sampleable rhythm tracks with smooth, melodic orchestrations. It further solidified James as a central architect of accessible, groove-oriented contemporary jazz.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion, melodic, instrumental, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Pure Imagination (5:20)
  2. Where The Wind Blows Free (6:43)
  3. Tappan Zee (6:49)
  4. Nights Are Forever Without You (6:23)
  5. Treasure Island (6:10)
  6. El Verano (4:55)

Credits

  • Bob James - primary artist, arranged by, electric piano [fender rhodes], grand piano [acoustic grand], clavinet, synthesizer [arp odyssey, oberheim polyphonic]
  • Gary King - bass
  • Alan Shulman - cello
  • Charles McCracken - cello
  • Steve Gadd - drums
  • Eric Gale - guitar
  • Sidney Weinberg - oboe, english horn
  • Ralph MacDonald - percussion

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