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Confirming the cliché “Unity is Strength”, German trumpetist and singer Till Brönner and the American pianist Bob James have cowritten On Vacation, a work of smooth, hedonistic jazz. Before becoming the king of smooth jazz who has been sampled by every rapper on the planet (his Nautilus has ended up on over 400 tracks by the likes of Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest and Ghostface Killah), Bob James made pure, hard jazz, accompanying even the great Sarah Vaughan between 1965 and 1968. A music that was light years away from the funky fusion that would make his money throughout the 70s and 80s. It is clearly this ultra-smooth version of Bob James that fascinates Brönner, thirty years his younger. Somewhat like On Vacation’s sleeve, the two musicians have conceived a meticulous and flawless work that features soul themes carried by silky, comforting grooves. One must also note the immense Harvey Mason’s jazz’n’funk drums which feature on over half the tracks. Amidst the ensemble, Till Brönner’s trumpet holds an incredible lightness and his voice, on the few sung tracks, is like that of Donald Fagen, laid back and carefree. But it is ultimately in the more stripped-down songs like Miranda, those which veer off the beaten track where Brönner and James are alone without rhythmic sections, that the sheer extent of their style shines through the most. © Max Dembo/Qobuz
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Harvey Mason, Drums - BOB JAMES, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christian von Kaphengst, Acoustic Bass - Till Brönner, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Woodrow Buddy Johnson, Composer - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
BOB JAMES, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christian von Kaphengst, Bass - Till Brönner, Composer, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - David Haynes, Drums - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Robin Meloy Goldsby, Lyricist - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
BOB JAMES, Composer, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Wolfgang Haffner, Drums - Christian von Kaphengst, Acoustic Bass - Till Brönner, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
BOB JAMES, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Wolfgang Haffner, Drums - Christian von Kaphengst, Acoustic Bass - Till Brönner, Composer, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Harvey Mason, Drums - Neil Diamond, Composer - Gilbert Becaud, Composer - BOB JAMES, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Till Brönner, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Yuri Goloubev, Acoustic Bass - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Harvey Mason, Drums - BOB JAMES, Composer, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christian von Kaphengst, Acoustic Bass - Till Brönner, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer - Rachel Kwag, Composer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Steve George, Composer, Lyricist - Richard Page, Composer, Lyricist - BOB JAMES, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Lang, Composer, Lyricist - Wolfgang Haffner, Drums - Christian von Kaphengst, Acoustic Bass - Till Brönner, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Harvey Mason, Drums - BOB JAMES, Composer, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Till Brönner, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Yuri Goloubev, Bass - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Harvey Mason, Drums - BOB JAMES, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christian von Kaphengst, Acoustic Bass - Till Brönner, Composer, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
BOB JAMES, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christian von Kaphengst, Acoustic Bass - Till Brönner, Composer, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - David Haynes, Drums - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Robin Meloy Goldsby, Lyricist - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Harvey Mason, Composer, Drums - BOB JAMES, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Till Brönner, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Scott Tibbs, Composer - Yuri Goloubev, Acoustic Bass - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Harvey Mason, Drums - Spencer Williams, Composer - BOB JAMES, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christian von Kaphengst, Acoustic Bass - Till Brönner, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
BOB JAMES, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CHARLES TOBIAS, Lyricist - Till Brönner, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Peter DeRose, Composer - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Harvey Mason, Drums - Neil Diamond, Composer - Gilbert Becaud, Composer - BOB JAMES, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Till Brönner, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arne Schumann, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Yuri Goloubev, Acoustic Bass - Julien Gauthier, Assistant Engineer - Götz-Michael Rieth, Mastering Engineer - Daniel Cayotte, Assistant Engineer - Michael Kümper, Assistant Engineer - Till Brönner & Bob James, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
Confirming the cliché “Unity is Strength”, German trumpetist and singer Till Brönner and the American pianist Bob James have cowritten On Vacation, a work of smooth, hedonistic jazz. Before becoming the king of smooth jazz who has been sampled by every rapper on the planet (his Nautilus has ended up on over 400 tracks by the likes of Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest and Ghostface Killah), Bob James made pure, hard jazz, accompanying even the great Sarah Vaughan between 1965 and 1968. A music that was light years away from the funky fusion that would make his money throughout the 70s and 80s. It is clearly this ultra-smooth version of Bob James that fascinates Brönner, thirty years his younger. Somewhat like On Vacation’s sleeve, the two musicians have conceived a meticulous and flawless work that features soul themes carried by silky, comforting grooves. One must also note the immense Harvey Mason’s jazz’n’funk drums which feature on over half the tracks. Amidst the ensemble, Till Brönner’s trumpet holds an incredible lightness and his voice, on the few sung tracks, is like that of Donald Fagen, laid back and carefree. But it is ultimately in the more stripped-down songs like Miranda, those which veer off the beaten track where Brönner and James are alone without rhythmic sections, that the sheer extent of their style shines through the most. © Max Dembo/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 01:06:13
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Till Brönner Bob James
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Masterworks
- Genre: Jazz
(P) 2020 Till Brönner under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
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