Bob James Trio

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing cut by mastering engineer Kevin Berg using the original high resolution studio masters. 2018 release. Bob James, the Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, record producer, record executive, and founding member of Fourplay, returns with Espresso, his first solo-led project in 12 years. Album tunes, penned by James, reflect the same inventiveness and musical fluency that persuaded Quincy Jones to become his mentor and champion back in 1963. His expressiveness through both writing and performance permeates the rocking minor-key blues of "Bulgogi," the definitive cool jazz of "Topside," the funk strut of "Submarine," the whispered beauty of "Promenade," the turbulent, more complex yet supremely listenable "Mojito Ride" and every other moment on Espresso. The Bob James Trio is complete with drummer Billy Kilson and bassist Michael Palazzolo.

• ASIN: B07FDQRK9Y

• ASIN: B000V9G8Q0

• Brand: Warner Bros
• ASIN: B000002N02
• UPC: 093624595625

"Lively and often humorous compositions." -- All Music Guide From the original liner notes: "This recording is made of an assembly of estranging electronic sound effects, trite sports commentaries, and the music of a beautifully improvising jazz trio. Bob James has, through this convulsion of out-of-context sound elements and music of a trio, tried to emphasize the strange acoustic complex of modern man in his city, in his world, in his cosmos." Features Bob James on piano, Barre Philips on bass, and Robert Pozar on percussion.

• ASIN: B00128X6QE
• UPC: 825481010092

• ASIN: B00NO9LGG6
• UPC: 889397020361

• ASIN: B000QJQ8VU

• ASIN: B0013UZ074

1. Getting Some Fun Out Of Life - Madeleine Peyroux, 2. Parker's Mood - James Carter, 3. My Song In The Night - Cyrus Chestnut, 4. Everything Changes - Mike Stern, 5. Bemsha Swing - Fred Hersch, 6. Vino Vecchio - Ginger Baker Trio, 7. Ballroom - Bill Frisell, 8. Harlem Country Girl - Olu Dara, 9. Observations - Bob Mamet, 10. Bird's Lament (In Memory Of Charlie Parker) - Moondog

• ASIN: B008NQWQPU

11-track CD on WEG Records, 1995.

• ASIN: B000O00PH4
• UPC: 788397000222