It was while earning his degree in music at UC San Diego in the late 1970s that budding bass guitar greatNathan Eastreceived perhaps the best advice anyone has given him. “My two mentors wereBert ...

If you need a good reason to check out Fourplay, the smooth-jazz group performing at the Keswick on Dec. 20, just talk to world-renowned guitarist Larry Carlton. Fourplay’s newest member just might be ...

Year in, year out, the JVC Jazz Festival takes the smooth jazz route when it arrives in Los Angeles -- but Sunday's could not be dismissed as a musical desert by jazz's true believers; George Benson ...

When Bob James hits the stage at the Tarrytown Music Hall Friday with his group Fourplay, it’ll be a homecoming. Seven years ago, he and his family moved to Michigan, but for four decades before that, ...

No group finds "the pocket" quite like Fourplay. On Tuesday night at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, an amped-up Eastman Theatre crowd heard a versatile set that delivered the smooth ...

Composer/pianist Bob James, who performed at the Dakota on Sunday night, May 12, with the group Fourplay, has carved out a niche as one of the most commercially successful pop instrumentalists of the ...

Since the quartet Fourplay released its first CD in 1991, it has become known as a solid, if rather uninspiring, smooth jazz band, playing mostly R&B-flavored pop while incorporating minimal jazz ...

*** Fourplay, Journey (RCA Victor): The smooth jazz megagroup’s latest release is an album bred for contemporary jazz listeners, with a pedigree destined to launch it to the top of the music charts.

Kampala — On a cold night when some chose to sleep and others chill out on coffee or tea, a cross-section of jazz fans met at Ange Mystique to watch smooth jazz group, Fourplay and friends. Every ...

The smooth jazz crowd may be comparatively small, and somewhat older, but it’s definitely passionate. For proof, just check out the KKSF Web site, where, at last count, you’ll find more than 6,500 ...