Event Listing - Music

Thu Feb 25

An Evening with Bob James

Tel. 408.961.5800
Website

Location	Date and Time
Montalvo Arts Center 15400 Montalvo Road Saratoga, CA 95071 map district: Saratoga	Thu Feb 25 (7:30 p.m.)

Description

Bob James has produced an impressive body of work during his extensive career. More than 30 solo albums plus multiple collaborations have resulted in 15 Grammy nominations plus innumerable awards, beginning in 1962 at the Notre Dame jazz Festival and most recently with the George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award in April of 2006. James has also been awarded Jazz Artist of the Year, Jazz Producer of the Decade (both in Cashbox magazine), has numerous No. 1 jazz radio hits and five No. 1 tracks on the Billboard Jazz Charts.

His collaborations on “One On One” with Earl Klugh as well as “Double Vision” with David Sanborn each garnered him a Grammy Award and sold in excess of 1 million copies each. James is also credited with composing the theme song for the television series “Taxi” as well as all original music for the show’s entire run.

In 1991 he founded the group Fourplay, who recently performed at Montalvo with Boney James.