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November 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Kenny Pore: A Place Across Town

Kenny Pore A Place Across Town Kenny Pore Sessions Smooth Jazz, Light Jazz, Dinner Jazz…it goes by many names and it’s usually awful to all but hi-fi nuts and sessions musicians (usually just the cats that played on that actual session).
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Place Across Town, Album Review, Bob James, Earl Klugh, Fourplay, Hank Crawford, Instrumental, Jazz, Kenny Pore, Kenny Pore Sessions, Kenny Pore: A Place Across Town, Light Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Vinnie Colaiuta, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Bob James Trio: Espresso 

Bob James Trio Espresso Evosound  Returning to the trio format after a recent lovely foray into duo work with Nathan East, here the master player and composer stretches his fingers across jazz, his first love. Small combo playing has been a huge part of James’ career whether polite (Fourplay) or deep and funky (the classic early 70s albums now […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bass, Billy Kilson, Bob James, Bob James Trio, Bob James Trio: Espresso, Drums, Espresso, Fourplay, Michael Palazzolo, Nathan East, Piano, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Nathan East – For The Record: Film

Nathan East: For The Record Directors: Chris Gero/David Maxwell Yamaha Entertainment Group of America/New Wave Entertainment Television What started out, clearly, as a digital press-kit component to Nathan East’s debut solo album gets stretched beyond EPK and into feature-length documentary film. Understandable when you play into the film’s tagline that Nathan East is the most […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Bass, Doc, Doc Edge, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge Festival, Eric Clapton, Film, Film Review, For the Record, Fourplay, Movie Review, Music Doco, Music Documentary, Nathan East, Nathan East - For The Record: Film, Nathan East: For The Record, Session Bassist ·

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September 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Nicholas Payton: Numbers

Nicholas Payton Numbers Nicholas Payton Best known as a trumpeter, here, on his latest album, Payton barely touches his horn. It’s all late-night Fender Rhodes with a band that could be backing Harvey Mason or Herbie Hancock – it’s a skinny-dip through jazz and funk waters after midnight, a little bit like Fourplay at times […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Fourplay, Harvey Mason, Herbie Hancock, Jazz, Nicholas Payton, Numbers ·

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June 15, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Harvey Mason: Chameleon

Harvey Mason Chameleon Concord For his first album in a decade Harvey Mason revisits material he’s written/co-written/recorded with various legends of soft-jazz/fusion/funk such as Bob James, Bobby Hutcherson and Herbie Hancock (the title track). The album features some great players – including our own Mark de Clive-Lowe and talents that include keyboardist Kris Bowers, trumpeter […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bob James, Chameleon, Fourplay, George Benson, Harvey Mason, Headhunters, Herbie Hancock, Mark de Clive-Lowe ·

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March 30, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Nathan East: Nathan East

Nathan East Nathan East Yamaha Entertainment Group When I was 13 years old I saw an Eric Clapton concert, my first big-name international gig; it was certainly a formative experience. The band was phenomenal, ex-members of The Average White Band and people who had recorded with Michael Jackson and toured with Stevie Wonder and the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bass, Daft Punk, Eric Clapton, Fourplay, Nathan East, Stevie Wonder ·

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