Bob James

czarivey  ..I'm pretty aware of all of Bob James' output since 1980.  

It's just that I moved on to primarily bop, bebop, hard bop and straight-ahead jazz.

All of Bob James' output since then as a sideman and leader has been of the smooth jazz variety, and I've moved on from that 40 years ago.  Smooth jazz was where the money was at.

Any Bob James fan can spot his sound signature in a minute if he's in the session, I haven't listened to him since the 80's.

Bob keeps putting out albums.  I've even seen his album "Espresso" get a review in Stereophile or TAS, not sure which.  He's still a little too smooth for me, though.

Thanks for the heads up, I am a big Bob James fan.

In the May/June TAS there's a review of "Bob James: Feel Like Making Live!"

I was and still are a huge fan of the Bob James CTI years with James working with Creed Taylor the wonderful producer and Rudy Van Gelder the fantastic recording engineer. Theses three together made some killer music in those years. James also arranged about 50% of the the CTI’s records in those days. Here is a link to Bob James CTI catalog of records he worked on.

Bob James CTI