Label: |
Blue Note |
Genre: |
R&B/Soul |
Product No.: |
ABLU 732971
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EAN: | 5099997329718 |
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Back Ordered
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Category: |
Vinyl Record |
No. of Discs: | 2 |
José James — No Beginning No End
Includes "Trouble," "It's All Over Your Body" and "Come To My Door"
"Perfectly fills the gap between Gil Scott Heron and D'Angelo — like a dream!" — Gilles Peterson
No Beginning No End is a seamless musical experience that moves between different styles with remarkable fluidity, bound together by José James' transcendent voice.
"It's not nearly enough to say that a musician mixes jazz, soul and funk, because so much has been built around that intersection since the 1970s," wrote Ben Ratliff in The New York Times earlier this year. "The singer José James lives around that intersection too. He's a romantic baritone with a deep-funk band, stretching out songs, evoking both the '70s of Roberta Flack and Gil Scott-Heron and the '90s and oughts of J Dilla." Ratliff continued, "But Mr. James, who has revealed himself in stages over the years, is a very different kind of singer than D'Angelo. He's a little more acoustic singer-songwriter, a little more delicate. He's clearer, more disciplined and lower key; he can move you with silence and the pure strength of his vocal tone."
The Minneapolis-born, Brooklyn-based James is a musical omnivore whose career path has steadfastly followed its own rhyme and reason. He is an artist that resists being pigeonholed, equally at ease on stage with a jazz legend like McCoy Tyner as he is in the studio with electronica pioneer Flying Lotus. Conceived, recorded and produced independently, No Beginning No End is James' most personal statement yet and boasts collaborators including noted producer/bassist Pino Palladino; pianist/composer Robert Glasper; R&B singer/songwriter/guitarist Emily King; international French-Moroccan singing star Hindi Zahra; and the 2011 Thelonious Monk Competition winner pianist Kris Bowers.
"No Beginning No End sums up how I feel about music right now," says James. "I don't want to be confined to any particular style. I decided I didn't want to be considered a jazz singer anymore and that was really freeing. Once I realized that jazz singing is just something that I do and it's just a label, it freed me as an artist to just write without any boundaries."
Side 1 | It’s All Over (Your Body) | Sword + Gun featuring Hindi Zahra | Trouble | Side 2 |
Vanguard | Come to My Door | Heaven on the Ground featuring Emily King | Side 3 |
Do You Feel | Make It Right | Side 4 |
Bird of Space | No Beginning No End | Tomorrow |
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