Bob James : Smooth Jazz Now

Bob James - Artist of the Month
April 7, 2006 - Smooth Jazz pioneer Bob James who is the recipient of the George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award this year at the Canadian Smooth Jazz awards is our "Artist of the Month." James will receive the honor tonight at the 2nd annual awards ceremony. Check out the 60 page tribute to Bob James at the official Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards site here. Listen to our exclusive interview with Bob with a bonus clip from Earl Klugh paying tribute to the pianist. More

Bob James interview Clips

Listen to John Beaudin's interview with Bob James

- Clip 1   - Bob Talks about receiving the George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award
- Clip 2   - Meeting Alexander Zonjic
- Clip 3   - Working with Creed Taylor at CTI Records
- Clip 4   - Leaving CTI for Columbia Records
- Clip 5   - Working behind the scenes early in his career
- Clip 6   - Reinventing Jazz at CTI
- Clip 7   - Drummer Steve Gadd
- Clip 8   - Being discovered by Quincy Jones
- Clip 9   - Does he care about Radio airplay?
- Clip 10 - Any problems with the Smooth Jazz genre?
- Clip 11 - Relationship with David Sanborn before "Double Vision"
- Clip 12 - Forming Fourplay
- Clip 13 - More on the beginning of Fourplay
- Clip 14 - Did Lee Ritenour leave fourplay because he was too busy for the band?
- Clip 15 - Is "Journey" the first digital Fourplay album?
- Clip 16 - Recording "Angela" the Taxi theme
- Clip 17 - More on the "Taxi" theme
- Clip 18 - Creating new sounds
- Clip 19 - Creating his computer art
- Clip 20 - Ever think of retiring?
- Clip 21 - On his classic tune "Street Smart"
- Clip 22 - Remembering radio in the 70's

Listen to Earl Klugh talk about Bob James