Bob James - Urban Flamingo (2006) CD Rip

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Artist: Bob James
Title: Urban Flamingo
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Koch Records [KOC CD 9979]
Genre: Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 64:51
Total Size: 496 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

1. Choose Me (8:53)
2. Miles A Head (5:22)
3. Skidaway (6:36)
4. Urban Flamingo (7:45)
5. Lay Down With You (5:11)
6. Fresh Start (7:07)
7. Make It More Blue (6:34)
8. Bobary Coast (7:08)
9. Endless Time (3:20)
10. Wingapo (6:49)

Bob James - Urban Flamingo (2006) CD Rip

personnel :

Piano, Keyboards – Bob James
Keyboards – Kevin DiSimone (tracks: 5)
Saxophone Alto – David McMurray (tracks: 1)
Saxophone Tenor – David McMurray (tracks: 3)
Bass – Al Turner (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6 to 8, 10), James Genus (tracks: 2), Nathan East (tracks: 9)
Drums – Billy Kilson (tracks: 2), Louis Pragasm (tracks: 9), Ron Otis (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6 to 8, 10)
Flute – David McMurray (tracks: 3)
Guitar – Jack Lee (tracks: 9) , John Pondel (tracks: 5) , Perry Hughes (tracks: 1, 3, 7, 8) , Wayne Gerard (tracks: 4, 10)
Guitar [Acoustic] – Earl Klugh (tracks: 6)
Backing Vocals – Bridgette Bryant (tracks: 9) , Hilary James (tracks: 5) , Kevin DiSimone (tracks: 5)
Lead Vocals – Hilary James (tracks: 5) , Nathan East (tracks: 9)

After revisiting his straight-ahead jazz roots on 2004's Take It from the Top, legendary keyboardist/composer Bob James returns to his bread and butter smooth jazz sound on Urban Flamingo. This time around James digs into his synthesizer chops for a set of relatively tepid and pop-oriented tracks that have more to do with contemporary soft rock and R&B than actual jazz. To these ends, James' daughter Hilary James takes a pleasant vocal turn on "Lay Down with You," while the funky "Niles Ahead" does reveal James' more organic bent and harks back to his classic '70s albums. However, the majority of the journeyman artist's compositions here will do little to expand his audience beyond die-hard pop-jazz aficionados.~ Matt Collar

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