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Yes, Please!
''Yes, Please!'' is the sixth studio album of the jazz group Fourplay which was released by Warner Bros. Records in 2000. Track listing Personnel Fourplay * Bob James – pianos, keyboards * Larry Carlton – guitars * Nathan East – bass guitars, vocals (6, 7), backing vocals (10) * Harvey Mason – drums Additional Musicians * Ken Freeman – synthesizer programming * Chanté Moore – vocals (6) * Sherree – lead and backing vocals (10) Production * Fourplay – producers (1-9, 11) * Nathan East – producer (10) * Marcel East – producer (10) * Don Murray – engineer, mixing (1-9, 11) * Moogie Canazio – mixing (10) * Steve Mixdorf – mix assistant (10) * Ken Freeman – additional engineer, ProTools engineer * Staffan Karlsson – additional engineer, ProTools engineer * Christian Robles – additional engineer * Dave Fisher – assistant engineer * Jimmy Hoyson – assistant engineer * Charlie Paakkari – assistant engineer * Patrick Q.K. – assistant en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fourplay
Fourplay (stylized as fOURPLAY) is a contemporary American smooth jazz quartet. The original members of the group were Bob James (keyboards), Lee Ritenour (guitars), Nathan East (bass), and Harvey Mason (drums). In 1997, Lee Ritenour left the group and Fourplay chose Larry Carlton as his replacement. In 2010, Larry Carlton left Fourplay and was replaced by Chuck Loeb, who died on July 31, 2017. During Loeb's illness, saxophonist Kirk Whalum joined the group for performances. The group has enjoyed consistent artistic and commercial success by grafting elements of R&B and pop to jazz, appealing to a broad mainstream audience. Their debut album, ''Fourplay'' (1991), sold over a million copies and remained at the number one position on the ''Billboard'' contemporary jazz chart for 33 weeks. Their next album, '' Between the Sheets'' (1993), reached number one, went gold, and received a Grammy Award nomination. In 1995, their third gold album, ''Elixir ELIXIR (the European life- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Bros
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Founded in 1923 by four brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner, the company established itself as a leader in the American film industry before diversifying into animation, television, and video games and is one of the "Big Five" major American film studios, as well as a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The company is known for its film studio division the Warner Bros. Pictures Group, which includes Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, the Warner Animation Group, Castle Rock Entertainment, and DC Studios. Among its other assets, stands the television production company Warner Bros. Television Studios. Bugs Bunny, a cartoon character created by Tex Avery, Ben Hardaway, Chuck Jones, Bob Givens and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan East
Nathan Harrell East (born December 8, 1955) is an American jazz, R&B, and rock bass player and vocalist. With more than 2,000 recordings, East is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego (1978). He is a founding member of contemporary jazz quartet Fourplay and has recorded, performed, and co-written songs with performers such as Bobby Womack, Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson, Joe Satriani, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder, Toto, Kenny Loggins, Daft Punk, Chick Corea, and Herbie Hancock. Career Early life Nathan Harrell East was born on December 8, 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Thomas and Gwendolyn East. He is one of eight children (five boys and three girls) raised Catholic in San Diego, where the family moved when he was four. He is the younger brother of Msgr Ray East of St Teresa of Avila Church in DC. East first studied cello fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snowbound (Fourplay Album)
''Snowbound'' is the fifth studio album by Fourplay, released in 1999. It is a recording of Christmas songs. Track listing Personnel Fourplay * Bob James – acoustic piano, keyboards, arrangements (1, 3-9, 11, 12) * Larry Carlton – guitars, arrangements (3, 7, 8, 9) * Nathan East – basses, arrangements (2, 3, 4, 7, 8), vocals (3, 6), finger snaps (4, 9) * Harvey Mason – drums, arrangements (3, 4, 7, 8, 10), finger snaps (4, 9) Additional Musicians * Tim Heintz – synthesizer programming * Marcel East – synthesizers (2, 4), additional percussion (2), drums (4), percussion programming (4), arrangements (4), vocal arrangements (4) * Michael Thompson – additional guitar (3, 4) * Matt Pierson – finger snaps (4, 9) * Larry Williams – tenor saxophone (3, 9) * Steve Holtman – trombone (3, 9) * Gary Grant – trumpet (3, 9) * Jerry Hey – trumpet (3, 9), horn arrangements (3, 9) * Heather Mason – vocals (2) * Gabriela Anders – vocals (3) * Eric Benét – l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heartfelt (Fourplay Album)
''Heartfelt'' is the seventh studio album by Fourplay, released in 2002. This is the first album to be released by Arista Records. Track listing Personnel Fourplay * Bob James – keyboards * Larry Carlton – guitars * Nathan East – bass guitar, vocals * Harvey Mason – drums Additional Personnel * Ken Freeman – programming (1-8, 10, 11, 12) * Christian "Tian" Salyer – programming (9) * LeDon Bishop – additional backing vocals (5) Production * Fourplay – producers (1-4, 6-12) * Harvey Mason, Jr. – producer (5) * Don Murray – engineer (1-4, 6-12), mixing (1-4, 6-12) * Dave Russell – engineer (5) * Christian "Tian" Salyer – engineer (5), ProTools engineer (9) * Ken Freeman – additional engineer (1-4, 6-12), ProTools engineer (1-8, 10, 11, 12) * Andy Ackland – assistant engineer (1-4, 6-12) * Derek Carlson – assistant engineer (1-4, 6-12) * Chris Wonzer – assistant engineer (1-4, 6-12) * Jon Gass – mixing (5) * Robert Vosgien – mastering * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Mason
Harvey William Mason (born February 22, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay. Mason, who attended Berklee in the 1960s, received an Honorary Doctorate at Berklee's 2015 Commencement Ceremony for his achievement and influence in music and for his enduring contributions to American and international culture. Life and career Mason was born and grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States, and attended Atlantic City High School. He began playing drums at the age of four with the support of his father, a drummer in the army band. Equipment Mason endorses Canopus drums, Murat Diril cymbals, Remo drumheads, DW pedals, and Vic Firth drumsticks. Mason has his own Vic Firth Harvey Mason signature drumstick and Vic Firth Harvey Mason Chameleon signature drumstick. Discography As leader With Fourplay As sideman With Arthur Adams * ''I Love Love Love My Lady'' (A&M, 1979) With Christina Aguilera * ''My Kind of Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob James (musician)
Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote "Angela", the theme song for the TV show ''Taxi.'' According to VICE (magazine), music from his first seven albums has often been sampled and believed to have contributed to the formation of hip hop. Among his most well known recordings are "Nautilus", "Westchester Lady", "Tappan Zee", and his version of "Take Me to The Mardi Gras". Early life and family James was born on Christmas Day of 1939 in Marshall, Missouri, United States. He started playing the piano at age four. His first piano teacher, Sister Mary Elizabeth, who taught at Mercy Academy, discovered that he had perfect pitch. At age seven, James began to study with R. T. Dufford, a teacher at Missouri Valley College. At age 15, James continued his studies with Franklin Launer, a teacher at Christian College in Columbia, Missouri, with more music instruction during high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Carlton
Larry Eugene Carlton (born March 2, 1948) is an American guitarist who built his career as a studio musician in the 1970s and 1980s for acts such as Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell. He has participated in thousands of recording sessions, recorded on hundreds of albums in many genres, for television and movies, and on more than 100 gold records. He has been a member of the jazz fusion group the Crusaders, the smooth jazz band Fourplay, and has maintained a long solo career. Music career Session work Carlton was born in Torrance, California, United States, and at the age of six began guitar lessons. His interest in jazz came from hearing guitarist Joe Pass on the radio, after which he moved on to jazz guitarists Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, and blues guitarist B.B. King. He went to junior college and Long Beach State College while playing professionally at clubs in Los Angeles. During the 1970s, he found steady work as a studio musician on electric and acoustic guitar in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanté Moore
Chanté Torrane Moore (born February 17, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, television personality, and author. Rising to fame in the early 1990s, Moore established herself as an R&B singer. Her debut studio album '' Precious'' was released in 1992. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on November 14, 1994, in the United States, spawning such R&B hits as " Love's Taken Over" and " It's Alright". Released in 1994, her second album, ''A Love Supreme'', did not achieve the same success as her debut album. In 1999, her third album, '' This Moment Is Mine'', was released. The album included "Chanté's Got a Man", her first top 10 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and No. 2 on the R&B chart, which became her signature song and her best charting song to date. She then released three more solo studio albums, ''Exposed'' (2000) ''Love the Woman'' (2008), '' Moore Is More'' (2013) and two collaborative albums ''Things That Lovers Do'' (2003), '' Uncovered/Covered'' (2006), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ProTools
Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed and released by Avid Technology (formerly Digidesign) for Microsoft Windows and macOS. It is used for music creation and production, sound for picture (sound design, audio post-production and mixing) and, more generally, sound recording, editing, and mastering processes. Pro Tools operates both as standalone software and in conjunction with a range of external analog-to-digital converters and PCIe cards with on-board digital signal processors (DSP). The DSP is used to provide additional processing power to the host computer for processing real-time effects, such as reverb, equalization, and compression and to obtain lower latency audio performance. Like all digital audio workstation software, Pro Tools can perform the functions of a multitrack tape recorder and a mixing console along with additional features that can only be performed in the digital domain, such as non-linear and non-destructive editing (most of audi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Mason, Jr
Harvey, Harveys or Harvey's may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Harvey'' (play), a 1944 play by Mary Chase about a man befriended by an invisible anthropomorphic rabbit * Harvey Awards ("Harveys"), one of the most important awards in American comic industry, founded in 1988 * "Harvey", a song by Her's off the album ''Invitation to Her's'', 2018 Films * ''Harvey'' (1950 film), a 1950 film adapted from Mary Chase's play, starring James Stewart * ''Harvey'' (1996 film), a 1996 American made-for-television film * ''Harvey'' (Hallmark), a 1972 adaptation of Mary Chase's play for the ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'' Characters * Harvey (''Farscape''), a character in the TV show ''Farscape'' * Harvey, a crane engine in ''Thomas & Friends'' * Harvey Beaks, in the Nickelodeon animated series ''Harvey Beaks'' * Harvey Birdman, title character from the teen-adult animated series ''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law'' * Harvey Dent, fictional District Attorney and supervillain (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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