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专辑名称:Restless
专辑歌手:Bob James
发行日期:1994
专辑类型:Smooth Jazz
唱片公司:Warner Bros / Wea
专辑介绍:
BOB JAMES 可算得上是位成功的作曲家,也极力推动JAZZ,FUNK音乐的先驱,他对於这类音乐的贡献远过於技术上的表现。他早期曾为SARAH VEUGHAN 担任KEYBOARD伴奏,工作之余积极参与录音的工作,并和当时颇负盛名的QUINCY JONES、DIONNE WARWICK、ROBERT FLACK 等共事,1973年他加入了一间叫CTI 的音乐工作室,并为ERIC GALE、GROVER WASHIN GTON等JAZZ乐的好手监制唱片发行。
1976年他发表了他个人首张专辑唱片「ONE 」,深获好评,从那时起在从事音乐工作的十年间终於有了爆炸性的转变,几年内又陆续地发表了TWO、THREE、FOUR三张唱片,慢慢的他开始与一些JAZZ顶尖好手接触,吸收他们在音乐上的理念,融合他们音乐上的技巧,更充实了他日后作品的内涵性,创造性与技术性,我们在他的专辑中常常可见到有一流的高手出现,如HARVY MARSON (DRUMS)、STEVE GADD(BASS)、DAVID SANBORN( SAX)等,无形中也成唱片卖座的本钱。
FUSION JAZZ 在这类音乐的领域里日益受到肯定和重视,如此成果JAMES 实功不可没。基本上来说,FUSION就是融和多种音乐的综合体,也较为一般人接受,JAMES 的音乐在作曲、编曲上十分用心,录音和制作也很严谨,给人有清爽脱俗的感觉。1977年他自开始使用属於他个人唱片的MARK,这就是为何在他制作发行的唱片中有TAPPEN ZEE的字样出现,以前所灌制的专辑皆委CBS 发行,这两年才由W.B.代为发行,在录音上的效果提升不少。
专辑曲目:
01. Lotus Leaves
02. Under Me
03. Restless
04. Kissing Cross
05. Storm Warning
06. Animal Dreams
07. Back To Bali
08. Into The Light
09. Serenissima
10. Awaken Us To The Blue
专辑歌手:Bob James
发行日期:1994
专辑类型:Smooth Jazz
唱片公司:Warner Bros / Wea
BOB JAMES 可算得上是位成功的作曲家,也极力推动JAZZ,FUNK音乐的先驱,他对於这类音乐的贡献远过於技术上的表现。他早期曾为SARAH VEUGHAN 担任KEYBOARD伴奏,工作之余积极参与录音的工作,并和当时颇负盛名的QUINCY JONES、DIONNE WARWICK、ROBERT FLACK 等共事,1973年他加入了一间叫CTI 的音乐工作室,并为ERIC GALE、GROVER WASHIN GTON等JAZZ乐的好手监制唱片发行。
1976年他发表了他个人首张专辑唱片「ONE 」,深获好评,从那时起在从事音乐工作的十年间终於有了爆炸性的转变,几年内又陆续地发表了TWO、THREE、FOUR三张唱片,慢慢的他开始与一些JAZZ顶尖好手接触,吸收他们在音乐上的理念,融合他们音乐上的技巧,更充实了他日后作品的内涵性,创造性与技术性,我们在他的专辑中常常可见到有一流的高手出现,如HARVY MARSON (DRUMS)、STEVE GADD(BASS)、DAVID SANBORN( SAX)等,无形中也成唱片卖座的本钱。
FUSION JAZZ 在这类音乐的领域里日益受到肯定和重视,如此成果JAMES 实功不可没。基本上来说,FUSION就是融和多种音乐的综合体,也较为一般人接受,JAMES 的音乐在作曲、编曲上十分用心,录音和制作也很严谨,给人有清爽脱俗的感觉。1977年他自开始使用属於他个人唱片的MARK,这就是为何在他制作发行的唱片中有TAPPEN ZEE的字样出现,以前所灌制的专辑皆委CBS 发行,这两年才由W.B.代为发行,在录音上的效果提升不少。
专辑曲目:
01. Lotus Leaves
02. Under Me
03. Restless
04. Kissing Cross
05. Storm Warning
06. Animal Dreams
07. Back To Bali
08. Into The Light
09. Serenissima
10. Awaken Us To The Blue
Amazon.com
Less instrusive than real jazz but more energetic than new age, simply constructed but exquisitely performed, James' pop confections are the perfect background music. On this album, James favors acoustic piano over synthesizers (though he uses both) and he employs a shifting cast of supporting musicians. His daughter Hillary James is the sweet-voiced if predictable lead singer on the wispy ballad, "Storm Warning." She joins Luther Vandross for the harmony vocals buried in the mix on "Under Me." Michael Brecker plays strong but simplistic tenor sax lines on that and two other songs. Titles like "Lotus Leaves," "Back to Bali" and "Awaken Us to the Blue" are meant to conjure up a certain romanticism, but they seem no more exotic than airline ads on TV. --Geoffrey Himes
Less instrusive than real jazz but more energetic than new age, simply constructed but exquisitely performed, James' pop confections are the perfect background music. On this album, James favors acoustic piano over synthesizers (though he uses both) and he employs a shifting cast of supporting musicians. His daughter Hillary James is the sweet-voiced if predictable lead singer on the wispy ballad, "Storm Warning." She joins Luther Vandross for the harmony vocals buried in the mix on "Under Me." Michael Brecker plays strong but simplistic tenor sax lines on that and two other songs. Titles like "Lotus Leaves," "Back to Bali" and "Awaken Us to the Blue" are meant to conjure up a certain romanticism, but they seem no more exotic than airline ads on TV. --Geoffrey Himes