In addition to being a renowned keyboard player, arranger, producer and bandleader, Bob James is an especially astute and savvy business man. Early on, he acquired the worldwide rights to his four solo albums on CTI Records and, later, his own Columbia-distributed albums on his Tappan Zee label. Years later, he would also pioneer the…
Jay Chattaway: The Jazz Years (1974-81)
Composer Jay Chattaway is best known for the prodigious amount of music he contributed to the venerated Star Trek franchise. He scored 42 episodes of The Next Generation series (1990-94), 59 episodes of the Deep Space Nine series (1993-99), 54 episodes of Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001) and 28 episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-05). In…
Montreux Summit 1 & 2 (1977-78)
Having only recently realized these discs were issued on CD – but now out of print – I wanted to track them down to hear if they had anything new to say. I had both sets when they were first released, but I remember not playing them very much. At the time, my interest was…