I was in the house when Bob James played the BlueNote w/ Rakim & Talib Kweli... and I was the only one who SCREAMED when he began playing Nautilus... was a great show with Masters of Hip Hop and Jazz.... it felt symbiotic the relationship between the music and the lyricists....
Living freaking legend. The first time I heard Bob was in 74. I was 9 and Mom played "Feel Like Making Love ". I was in heaven. Ever since then this man's music has been a part of my life. Thank you Mommy ❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤.
This man is a Living Legend. My favorite artist, would listen to him in my headphones while casing mail at work…Postal lingo 😎. His music is timeless, as Jazzy Jeff says Bubble Wrap this man I hope he lives forever. He is The Soundtrack to my Life GOD Bless you Bob.
bro hes a founder of hip hop! give him an award and add welcome him in to the history. when we do that...we ask he open source it as a godfather...great human move for the world. he will live for ever!
omfg I was lucky enough too see this legend live at Blue Note in NYC together with Talib Kweli and DMC :D :D :D Three absolute legends, had a blast there
I love Bob James’s music. My husband and I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. James and several other great jazz legends while we and two more couples were celebrating our perspective wedding anniversaries on a 2012 Dave Koz cruise. It was an awesome, unforgettable experience!❣️
This is a great interview and very insightful too. I love the way bassist Gary King played on Bob's recordings. Oh and also the late Eric Gale, on guitar...wow! Please have Bob James to come back again for a second interview to discuss songs like Nautilus and others, and how these songs were creatively approached. Thanks so much! I really appreciate this. Oh one final thing, I also loved reading the album covers at the time because they were very very informative with the personnel listings. Lastly, Westchester Lady, which was a very Funk groove.
There are certain White Musicians Black Folks have taken as ours. Teena Marie, Bobby Cauldwell, Peter Brown, Dan Hartman, and this great man right here...Bob MFN James. Salute to the great music makers adding to our great songbook of life.
Great interview of a Jazz-Funk legend! However, during the discussion of "Breezin'", the original version was actually on a Gábor Szabó album from 1971 called High Contrast. Although Bobby Womack did write the tune and even played guitar on Szabó version, he never actually recorded it on one of his own albums.
I'm not sure i agree about CTI, I always felt Rudy van G didn’t know how to make drums sound good, in fact there’s a lot of CTI albums where the drums sound really crappy and weirdly compressed. Contrast George Benson’s albums after he left CTI, they sound waaaay groovier and better, like "In Flight" for example. It was almost like RVG had no feeling for the funk. And some of those albums were also weirdly dry, like he was trying to do the dead, separated studio thing (so common in the 70's) but just didn't get it. Just my opinion though!! There is some CTI stuff i really like, but it's mostly the more acoustic, jazzy stuff (Jobim, Stanley Turrentine etc), which RVG was of course a master at. Apart from that, great interview!
It's interesting that the "a younger generation was turned onto your music" card is almost always played during licensing/sampling conversations, as if to justify appropriation.
Dam, sucks to know that he totally doesn’t respect sampling in hip hop, and thus the whole culture and genre of hip Hop. Was really sad yo hear his total dismissal in the artform of re arranging through sampling.
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RIP to the great Creed Taylor. The CTI years with Bob James must've been amazing.
Bob James ..... An iconic Jazz Musician over 50 years !!
Great interview Qwestlove !!
I was in the house when Bob James played the BlueNote w/ Rakim & Talib Kweli... and I was the only one who SCREAMED when he began playing Nautilus... was a great show with Masters of Hip Hop and Jazz.... it felt symbiotic the relationship between the music and the lyricists....
Living freaking legend. The first time I heard Bob was in 74. I was 9 and Mom played "Feel Like Making Love ".
I was in heaven. Ever since then this man's music has been a part of my life.
Thank you Mommy ❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤.
I love Bob James I can listen to him talk all day 🙂
Quest, Pino, and Bob James would be an astounding record! PLEASE make this happen!
Great to see Bob still hangin, and more surprised he is embracing hip hop after all the music of his that has been sampled without him gettin his due.
Bob James needs a movie on him ,his journey and those whom his life connected is remarkable. .
This man is a Living Legend. My favorite artist, would listen to him in my headphones while casing mail at work…Postal lingo 😎. His music is timeless, as Jazzy Jeff says Bubble Wrap this man I hope he lives forever. He is The Soundtrack to my Life GOD Bless you Bob.
Bob James is the MAN!
bro hes a founder of hip hop! give him an award and add welcome him in to the history. when we do that...we ask he open source it as a godfather...great human move for the world. he will live for ever!
I came to know Bob James due to CTI/Kudu Records and his work as an arranger for Hank Crawford & Grover Washington, Jr. Funky, groovy & sophisticated.
Bob deffo deserves flowers from the hiphop community
And some checks.
omfg I was lucky enough too see this legend live at Blue Note in NYC together with Talib Kweli and DMC :D :D :D
Three absolute legends, had a blast there
I love Bob James’s music. My husband and I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. James and several other great jazz legends while we and two more couples were celebrating our perspective wedding anniversaries on a 2012 Dave Koz cruise. It was an awesome, unforgettable experience!❣️
I mostly discovered Bob James music after finding out he did the Taxi theme song.
This is a great interview and very insightful too. I love the way bassist Gary King played on Bob's recordings. Oh and also the late Eric Gale, on guitar...wow! Please have Bob James to come back again for a second interview to discuss songs like Nautilus and others, and how these songs were creatively approached. Thanks so much! I really appreciate this. Oh one final thing, I also loved reading the album covers at the time because they were very very informative with the personnel listings. Lastly, Westchester Lady, which was a very Funk groove.
I’m flipping out right now having just discovered two of his samples. 🤯🎉
Woooo! This is the one, thanks Questlove!
...thanks to this interview I learned something: I've always assumed you came from a musical family/background - everything is more amazing than ever!
Learned a lot about James background and early days I never knew about. Great Questlove interview as always.
There are certain White Musicians Black Folks have taken as ours. Teena Marie, Bobby Cauldwell, Peter Brown, Dan Hartman, and this great man right here...Bob MFN James. Salute to the great music makers adding to our great songbook of life.
Looking forward to this
Great interview of a Jazz-Funk legend! However, during the discussion of "Breezin'", the original version was actually on a Gábor Szabó album from 1971 called High Contrast. Although Bobby Womack did write the tune and even played guitar on Szabó version, he never actually recorded it on one of his own albums.
Fuckin legend! Hope he’s in good financial standing and in great health.
...thank you for mentioning Yamaha - excellent company!
the james brown of rhodes
Great interview.
Great episode 👌🔥 Would be great to hear Poor Righteous Teacher's speak on their come-up. 🤙✌️
Bob James' Nautilus was the interstitial music on Channel 20 WDCA back in the 1970s
"Is there a "bell-less" version of Mardi Gras?"
That's the million dollar question!!
Biz was claiming he had a copy but he might have been prone to exaggerating.
I believe Bobby Womack wrote "Breezing"
amazing
Awesome
yeah wow, I agree w/ Bob re: Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans on the Rhodes
SUN RA was the first to play an ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD in 1945
SAM & DAVE , TARIQ and BILL , Tariq and BILL, 🎺🎷Louis Naylor, Tariq and Bill 🎬
I'm not sure i agree about CTI, I always felt Rudy van G didn’t know how to make drums sound good, in fact there’s a lot of CTI albums where the drums sound really crappy and weirdly compressed. Contrast George Benson’s albums after he left CTI, they sound waaaay groovier and better, like "In Flight" for example. It was almost like RVG had no feeling for the funk. And some of those albums were also weirdly dry, like he was trying to do the dead, separated studio thing (so common in the 70's) but just didn't get it. Just my opinion though!! There is some CTI stuff i really like, but it's mostly the more acoustic, jazzy stuff (Jobim, Stanley Turrentine etc), which RVG was of course a master at. Apart from that, great interview!
thanks for this one...lol
The Guitar Center Beat 💀
It's interesting that the "a younger generation was turned onto your music" card is almost always played during licensing/sampling conversations, as if to justify appropriation.
Please don't ask about The Fresh Prince
Dam, sucks to know that he totally doesn’t respect sampling in hip hop, and thus the whole culture and genre of hip
Hop.
Was really sad yo hear his total dismissal in the artform of re arranging through sampling.
Omg... get to the interview ..8 mins in of filler