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Fourplay’s European Tour, 2011

by mattm on Jan.16, 2012, under Videos

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Three, Two, One… A Final Say with Bob James

by mattm on Jan.12, 2012, under Press Releases & Concert Reviews

“I’m flattered to be a part of hip-hop’s history,” says Bob James nonchalantly. “But I believe we’re still at the beginning of understanding how young people make music.”

Bob James’s career developed during a time when radio ruled, records sold, and Roberta Flack had the country’s number one song. Things were different then. Popular music was changing, and over in New York, kids were priming themselves for a burgeoning hip-hop scene. James was thirty-five by 1974 and had just released his first solo album on CTI Records. His subsequent projects for the label were both commercially successful LPs and unsung flops. Regardless of units sold, it was those very records that would lay the foundational sound for some of hip-hop’s most coveted records. It was those kids in New York who initially took James’s music and adapted it for themselves to use and the world to see.

James’s first three CTI releases—One, Two, and Three—are amongst the most sampled records ever. And if we’re truly beginning to grasp how younger generations make music, it’s safe to assume that James’s catalogue is a resource that’ll be continually sifted through and sampled from.

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“The Dream Team”

by mattm on Jan.11, 2012, under Press Releases & Concert Reviews

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Fourplay Rings in the New Year @ Blue Note Tokyo

by mattm on Jan.02, 2012, under Videos

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Fourplay @ The Blue Note Tokyo (Dec 2011)

by mattm on Jan.02, 2012, under Videos

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Fourplay at The Java Jazz Festival 2011

by mattm on Dec.13, 2011, under Videos

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Fourplay Heats Up Japan this Holiday Season

by mattm on Dec.13, 2011, under News, Videos

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Behind the Scenes with Fourplay in Kiev, Ukraine

by mattm on Nov.25, 2011, under Photos

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Fair Play for Fourplay

by mattm on Nov.22, 2011, under Press Releases & Concert Reviews

Photos: Akin Aworan

Former John Stevens sideman Francis Graham-Dixon reviews Fourplay in performance on the eve of the London Jazz Festival and asks why is this kind of music generally so ill-served by the jazz press?

Fourplay embarked 20 years ago on a collective project that has stood the test of time. Those lucky enough to witness their performance at The Grand, Clapham at the end of a European tour were treated to a spellbinding night of music combining emotional power and intensity with peerless virtuoso brilliance; hardly a surprise when you consider that this group of musicians comprise some of the very best instrumentalists and songwriters of any era, and all at the top of their game. Yet I have seen no other review of this brilliant gig in the jazz press. Why is this kind of music generally so ill-served by the specialists?

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Fourplay Bites Into the Scene @ Night Club Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany

by mattm on Nov.21, 2011, under Photos

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