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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0053361314620
Label: Heads Up
Manufacturer: Heads Up
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Heads Up
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Sales Rank: 873
Studio: Heads Up
Disc 1:- Fortune Teller - Fourplay, East, Nathan
- The Whistler - Fourplay, Mason, Harvey
- Ultralight - Fourplay, Carlton, Larry
- Cape Town - Fourplay, East, Nathan
- The Yes Club - Fourplay, James, Bob
- Prelude for Lovers - Fourplay, DiSimone, Kevin
- Look Both Ways - Fourplay, James, Bob
- Argentina - Fourplay, Mason, Harvey
- Comfort Zone - Fourplay, Carlton, Larry
- Sebastian - Fourplay, James, Bob
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Album Description:
According to some very basic laws of nature, when powerful forces come together, some form of energy is created - usually in large amounts. In music, the laws of interaction are no different. When keyboardist Bob James, bassist Nathan East, guitarist Larry Carlton and drummer Harvey Mason come together as Fourplay, the result is Energy.
Energy grafts a variety of sounds - R&B, pop, African and more - to Fourplay's unwavering jazz foundations. In addition to vocals by East - a charter member since the band's inception in 1990 - the album also features a vocal track by Esperanza Spalding, the upright bassist, composer and vocalist.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Another good album from a consistently good band
Fourplay have done really well. Of the plethora of jazz "super groups" that were formed back in the early 90s - and I won't name any names - this one seems to be the only one still standing. Or at least, the only one still putting out consistently decent music, after 17 years and a dozen or so albums.
Bob James (keyboards), Larry Carlton (guitar), Nathan East (bass & vocals) and Harvey Mason (drums) are all well known and respected in their respective fields and have all had, and still have, successful solo careers. Together, I think they're something pretty special. This album is pretty much what I expected from them, which is not a bad thing, and in places, has touches of the old-school sound effects James used to employ on his albums back in the the 70s and 80s. For example, the whistling sounds on "The Whistler". Again, not a bad thing.
I really wanted to be able to give the album five stars but "Cape Town" and "Prelude For Lovers" marred my overall enjoyment of it. I found the beats - they sounded way too mechanical to be real drums - on the former song too clunky and I enjoy East much more when he provides vocal effects, which he does brilliantly on the album closer "Sebastian", than when he actually sings, as he does on "Cape Town" - with members of his family providing backing vocals, apparently. Actually, now I look a bit more closely, "Cape Town" is produced and arranged by Fourplay and Marcel East (Nathan's son, presumably), and that explains a lot. Marcel ... Read More
Rating:  - THE BEST CD SINCE LEE LEFT.
THE BEST CD FROM THE GROUP SINCE LEE RITTENOUR LEFT.THIS GROUP HAS SOME KICK AGAIN. 5BIG STARS.
Rating:  - Its ok
Really nothing too different from what they have done before....good dinner music but not as listenable as the fist three albums IMHO. Superb recording quality if you want to sit down and appreciate you HiFi. I still miss Lee Ritenour though - felt like he spiced up the music abit more (still think Larry is great though).
Rating: - Fourplay rocks, ehh, jazzes!
Super SACD, great music, it seems they get better all the time (small dip: Journey). Larry Carltin tops his best playing ever, Nathan East is THE bass man every band could/should wish. Bob James, keyboardman extraordinaire and Harvey: pleasantly lazy drumplayer, every beat is the right beat. Ultralight is excellent guitarplaying: Wes Montgomery sounds now and then, but very much 21st century. Esperanza Spalding is a tempting singer, so, all in all, excellent CD. In short: Super SACD, for the sound is brilliant.
Rating: - Wonderful
As always Fourplay does it again. You can never go wrong purchasing one of their CD's.
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