Talk:Bob James (musician)

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Pop Jazz?[edit]

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"Though he has recorded a couple of straight jazz albums, most of his recordings contain "pop-jazz" which is a type of instrumental pop music"

I think the term 'pop-jazz' is incorrect, it is not a real music sub-genre. There are a million of these labels (smooth jazz, lite jazz, jazz funk, jazz rock, jazz fusion, etc), but pop-jazz is just made up. Bob James didn't play 'instrumental pop music' even if he did instrumental version of pop songs, jazz people have played jazz covers of pop songs for years, it's part of jazz. The Bad Plus cover bands like Nirvana and Rush, Wes Montgomery and George Benson have done Beatles covers, and they're not just playing 'instrumental pop music.' Instumental pop music is songs like Wipeout! by the Surfaris or Rumble by Link Wray. The fact that James worked w/ jazz musicians and recorded for a jazz label means he was a jazz musician, his music was jazz. If he plays 'instrumental pop' then so do Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock.

I'm going to have to remove that line, because it just doesn't work. The person who wrote this article obviously has a very rigid idea of what classifies as 'Jazz', I actually deleted a line that read: "Listeners who are looking for challenging jazz rather than background music will be dissapointed with James later work" Not all jazz has to follow the same standards and not all of it has to be 'challenging' to be real jazz.

And what is 'straight jazz?' I'm taking that line out too, because what's straight? acoustic jazz? If that's what you mean, then it works, but straight jazz, like pop jazz, is made up and not in popular usage in music circles.

Hip Hop[edit]

A mention of his huge influence on Hip-Hop should be made.

Hieroglyphics also heavily sampled Angela for Cab Fair

he's also featured in Dr. Octagon's "I Got To Tell You".

so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.218.32.2 (talk) 09:19, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why does it say his double album was deleted in 1999? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iamscottevil (talk • contribs) 16:32, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed "ripped off profoundly" to "His music has also been sampled often in hip hop music." Ripped off profoundly is hardly a neutral viewpoint. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.170.244.140 (talk) 09:32, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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