An Evening of Fourplay (HD) - Vol.1&2 THE SMOOTHJAZZ LOFT

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The fantastic foursome of FOURPLAY features Bob James on keyboards, Lee Ritenour on guitars, Nathan East on bass and Harvey Mason on drums. They are joined by special guests Chaka Khan, Phillip Bailey and Phil Perry in the spectacular live DVD "An Evening of Fourplay".
Featured in this 12-song set are 3 of their early classics: Between The Sheets (featuring Chaka Khan), After The Dance and Chant.
Tracklisting: 1. Chant 2. Monterey 3. 101 Eastbound 4. Midnight Stroll 5. After The Dance 6. Bali Run 7. Wish You Were Here 8. Moonjogger 9. A Summer Child 10. Amoroso 11. Between The Sheets 12. Flying East
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@DjJoeEmeric 3 года назад

I think we need to say big thanks for sound engineer who recorded this music in this phenomenal quality .

@cliffordstrom1505 3 года назад

I think we'd be better served if someone familiar with the identity of the sound engineer and mixer and lighting, etc. would kindly come forward and share with the world their name(s), who they are, whether they are still alive, who they now work with, etc. etc. The production side has always been a hidden aspect of the business and the fame/celebrity of people who stand up there and "just play".....if you get my drift. Fourplay wouldn't be Fourplay if they didn't have consummate pro's in the sound booth, in the entourage that packs/unpacks/sets up their equipment and all that. Let's get some names....at the very least.

@richardlane106 3 года назад

I agree 100%.......the sound mixing & quality is outstanding. Just a tad heavy on the bass.....only very minor fault.

@ronaldwall2936 3 года назад

@@cliffordstrom1505 ?n,,?. L

@ralphrockwell7670 2 года назад

Musician has final say on what you hear

@douglasfan4670 2 года назад

@@cliffordstrom1505 l

@MrRedrocket42 День назад

I respect Nathan East so much as a musician. He seems so humble, yet he can literally play anything. He can blend into any genre with ease and he makes every artist that he performs with sound fantastic. Nathan is the quintessential bassist.

@whiskeyanoto Год назад

2023 and still lovin' their music.. awesome four

@PrincessMelanielovesKarmynn Год назад

Yes Indeed! Me too!!!

@joelcookies29 10 месяцев назад

Same here ❤

@KeithCopeland778 7 месяцев назад

Some of the most skilled, gifted, respected, accomplished, and recorded musicians and singers on the planet!!!

@zechariahkhatib-np4bd 23 дня назад

I've been listening to Four Play for the past couple of years now. It's the best creative music ever. I listen to it everyday. It puts me in a good mood. Especially when I'm busy with chores around the house.

@GeorgekwessiDavis Год назад

Thanks. To see them play live is not from this planet. They are from a different world. The talent is unreal. 🤣🤣🤣

@dennylibertario2246 3 года назад

At this late date, after several retired or passed guitar players, and everyone getting older, I say it would be wonderful timing to get someone in the band to author a bio or memoirs on what it was like to perform in this group and offer some insights on what the composition, rehearsal and personality process was like over last 3 decades with different configurations of the band. Bob would be an excellent person to put down some thoughts into the creative process and touring challenges.

@tembazwane1489 2 года назад

@donlucas3984 2 года назад

@@tembazwane1489 why not?

@humbertholloway7701 2 года назад

Yeah, add my name to another on the petition for some memoirs or legacy history narrated by one of the guys, whether it be Bob James, Nathan or Harvey....maybe with some interview input and feedback from Lee and Larry at least. It's time to pull the curtain back on some of these groundbreaking bands rather than waiting for some history rewriters and agenda mongers like those involved with Beatles look-backs. What was it like to be in Fourplay? How did they get this good? Was it always amiable and friendly? Did the touring get tiring? Just the big picture stuff would be fun for some of us who follow music and certain genres/artists.

@jackieclark8253 2 года назад

Only the greatChuck Loeb has passed on(RIP)...all the other present and former members are still playing. None retired... I had the honor of playing a show on bass with Bob James back in Dec.2019,and he was 80 at the time...still killing it! The only other members besides Lee Ritenour were Larry Carlton,Loeb,and Kirk Whalum.

@michellemarshall8199 Год назад

I like that idea!!! 👌💘

@luisbaltazar8306 4 года назад

One of the bestjazz fourplay that ever played by four fathers,Bob James(pianist)Lee Riteour(guitarist)Nathan East (bassist)Harvey Mason(drummer)👏👏👏👏

@russellriley2417 2 года назад

One of the best jazz group ever.

@pbenson56fran Год назад

It was wonderful seeing them live.

@kathrynmccusker3924 8 месяцев назад

A good friend sent me this link. I'll be very grateful to him for a long time. This is beautiful

@judileffe7193 8 месяцев назад

Orgazmint!!! Wow!!!

@danielwickli1564 Месяц назад

How about StepsAhead or Spyro Gyra?@@russellriley2417

@spideydew20 3 года назад

You're gonna throw Fourplay at me....and then add Phillip Bailey and Phil Perry to the mix?!?! I'M IN!!

@conradford7493 3 года назад

Knowledge. Plus Perry is from my hometown. E. St. Louis.

@billyboy9141 3 года назад

This is why musical instruments were invented and created. Pure talent like these guys have will always shine through. Real music, real musicians .. no artificial sounds, no artificially created bands, no stupid special effects to disguise the little or no talent that a lot of so-called bands have these days.

@mrbelton1871 3 года назад

And no cheeks with naked asses

@Manumusika 2 года назад

Simply one and only foursome Musicians how show us what music this "kind" is supremely felt and played. My awesome admiration to them, forever...Manu de Carvalho October 2021

@AhmadMabruriBBeruri 2 года назад

@@mrbelton1871 EXACTLY!!!

@owenthompson8397 2 года назад

@@Manumusika I couldn't agree with you more !! Well said.

@augustopulma5688 Год назад

@@Manumusika spyrogyra

@markusbrogle7603 3 года назад

00:00 - 1. Chant 08:05 - 2. Lee Solo 11:51 - 3. Monterey 19:41 - 4. 101 Eastbound 30:46 - 5. Drum Solo 32:53 - 6. Midnight Stroll 40:24 - 7. Amoroso 51:25 - 8. Between The Sheets - with Chaka Khan 1:01:20 - 9. Flying East

@ivanmarindra9149 2 года назад

101 Eastbound kesukaan saya menurut saya ini versi terbaiknya solo bass nya oke banget kalo george benson dengan gitar nya nathan east dengan bass nya

@markusbrogle7603 2 года назад

@@ivanmarindra9149 hä.

@dannyteo4261 2 года назад

After song no.6, it should have "a summer child" but it's missing here.

@AhmadMabruriBBeruri 2 года назад

@@ivanmarindra9149 Mus Mujiono juga jangan lupa.. Hehehe Gak kalah keren lho..

@Nethanel773 Год назад

Thank you

@juanjotm4821 2 года назад

Listen to this : this music is definitely not for heavy rockers. The other side of the coin. Pure luxury. ! I love Fourplay

@happyrockpublishing4140 Месяц назад

Decided to give this a listen, decided 'I like this.' Read the 'notes': of COURSE! Lee Ritenour!!!!

@anthonybarnes7545 Год назад

Fourplay is like watching 4 eagles soaring on a summer day, each taking inspiration and interpreting the winds of sound in their own way. I love this music!

@evhvariac2 22 дня назад

Omg

@VelkePivo 3 года назад

I'm just blown away by Phil Perry here. Incredible.

@vincetamargo5973 5 лет назад

this is what we called JAZZ

@trevormatthews907 11 месяцев назад

I've probably listened to this recording over a hundred times and can never get tired of the complexity yet the ease these masters display here... music like this lives on forever ❤

@alfonsomacgregor7641 5 лет назад

What a pleasure to listen to consolidated musicians who enjoy playing and sharing their beautiful art!!! Thank you for posting, and keep it coming! We will never get enough of this music!

@deborahbuie9188 Год назад

Knew them years ago just getting back into them sorry I missed so much

@L.I.Sound_Lover 6 месяцев назад

ME, TOO! JUST TURNED 63, ... UM MY 2ND 36TH YR N REDISCOVERIN FP IS EVEN BETTER THAN WHEN I 1ST DID IN IN DE EARLY 70'S. SEEN 'EM LIVE MANY TIMES TIL I WAS BLESSED W/MY 1ST SON AT 41 IN 2001 (ADOPTED A BOY A YR LATER). 2DAY, MY SONS KNOWS DE HISTORY OF JAZZ FROM RAGTIME ORIGINATIN OUTTA N'AWLINS (MATERNAL GRANDPA WAS BORN N RAISED IN N'AWLINS B4 MIGRATIN TO HARLEM) UP TO DE SMOOTH JAZZ OF 2DAY! NOT ONLY THAT, QUEEN NINA SIMONE WAS OUR NEIGHBOR IN DE 60'S!

@namlajwayi2317 5 месяцев назад

I mean doesn't get better than this, it's their playground. It's like someone is hiding Al Jerreau, on that chant song. Still sounds good.

@wythetrumpet6419 3 года назад

I must say Fourplay is my favorite smooth jazz group. Bob James and the crew always do a fantastic job in the studio or on the stage. Nathan, Harvey and Lee are always fabulous. They have some of the best improvisation grooves around!

@frettfrenzzey 2 года назад

This couldn't be any sweeter. We are looking and listening to LEGENDS!

@jimmieshields9331 4 года назад

Man this group is legendary an icon in the music industry. They are and forever will be one of the most influential groups of all time.

@oriomenoni7651 6 лет назад

Chant is the most perfect piece of modern music that I ever heard. It gives me goosebumps every time.

@sphamandlamthembu9159 2 года назад

3 years later and I believe that still stands, my dad used to play the dvd when I was growing up and I never forgot it till this day

@vm3813 2 года назад

This Is Music!!! I’m screaming this to my children and the youth of the neighborhood 😎💙😎

@richardfrancis7471 11 месяцев назад

I do the same my friend, but disappointingly, they just don’t want to listen or understand it is a modern tragedy of the youth of today

@vm3813 11 месяцев назад

@@richardfrancis7471 No, no. We have to keep putting Love on the youth. Show them the comparisons of today’s music that is SAMPLED by yesterday’s music. Embrace the struggle my friend 😀

@richardfrancis7471 11 месяцев назад

I will do my best

@jacciglenn7675 3 месяца назад

EXACTLY😂🎶

@primejudicator7817 3 года назад

Easily one of my favorite covers of "Between the Sheets" with Chaka, Philip Bailey and Phil Perry. So much talent on this jam.

@conradford7493 3 года назад

Yes!

@jacciglenn7675 3 месяца назад

I need you to STOP with your Reminiscing😂but its soooo True!!!

@pontshotsenasi 3 месяца назад

With love from South Africa ❤ 🇿🇦 🎉

@Vincent-po7qe Месяц назад

Simply magnificent! Grooving indeed …

@michaeljeansa1475 Год назад

RIP My dad - Thank you for this good music am still playing it.

@annetteswan8019 2 года назад

This is the best music that I've heard in a long time.....soothes my soul.

@rjb8980 2 года назад

I hope you listen to Dave grusin.

@hardwiredtoselfdestruction3401 2 года назад

Yes! Foreplay Ronnie Laws George Benson The Rippingtons w Russ Freeman Joe Sample Milt Jackson

@pasqualesantimone7564 Год назад

@jacciglenn7675 3 месяца назад

Exactly..."SOUL MUSIC"❤

@AbdulmennanTor 4 месяца назад

Thanks to Bob, Nathan, Harvey, and Lee, Fourplay has introduced many jazz standards. This video record in particular stands out due to the exceptional quality of the recording, but Lee's solo performance on the song "Monterey" is also historically significant.

@sureshkudke8485 3 года назад

This is the most complete smooth jazz quartet.

@ianmcloughlin2701 Год назад

Stunning, four supreme musicians at the top of their games

@alfredozamudio1805 Год назад

This DVD is wonderful! I have it autographied by Lee Ritenour!

@tungsenho4125 5 лет назад

My favorite Fourplay of all time: Bob James, Nathan East, Lee Ritenour and Harvey Masons

@jeromevansanden1148 5 лет назад

Yeah this was the original line up. Sometime later on Lee Ritenour was replaced by Larry Carlton who is yet another master in his own right.

@JAVIERLOPEZ-hb6rx 4 года назад

Alll guitarrist from four play are excellwnts

@JAVIERLOPEZ-hb6rx 4 года назад

🌆

@sportsofallsortswithkwame8826 3 года назад

Larry Carlton and GOD rest his soul Chuck Loeb are superb guitarist in their own right, however fOURPLAY was never the same once Captain Fingers departed! Hopefully he reunites with the guys and they bless us with new music and touring once we overcome the C19

@gyorgymodroczky4793 3 года назад

Larry Carlton and Chuck Loeb .....

@sharonjoan9997 11 месяцев назад

Very very nice!!

@martin36959 Год назад

Words fail if it comes to express what I'm feeling while listening to this amazing concert of Four Play.. . Let the music take over! ❤🙂👍

@LifeStrikeCoach 10 месяцев назад

This is the original Fourplay with Lee. No one can replicate what they did!

@leroyusa935 Год назад

Four musicians that know what synergy is all about. Their melodies interlace with absolute precision. Each instrument seem to communicate with one another with ease and fluidity and the compositions put you in a relaxed and smooth state of mind. Great music for reducing your stress and anxiety after a day of hard work and coping with the daily grind of commuter traffic.

@tbump74 Год назад

101 Eastbound and After The Dance are my favorite Fourplay songs! I've been a fan for 30 yrs.

@gushenslick3005 5 лет назад

Why haven't I found these guys before??? Fourplay is the epitome of Smooth Jazz

@galingaling 2 года назад

Coz youre too young?

@rjb8980 2 года назад

Have you found Dave grusin yet,? if not check out morning dance, 3 days of the condor. Soundtrack. Good movie also.

@theressamurphy2996 3 года назад

This group is my favorite smooth jazz...Nathan, Harvey, Bob James and Lee. I am chilling here Four Play....Thank you for a relaxing holiday season!

@TheNelsonmonteiro 3 года назад

THE SOUND IS OUT OF THIS WORLD !

@josecortesrolembergfilho6783 3 месяца назад

BOB JAMES RÉUNIT, CE QU'ILYA DE MEILLEUR ET PLUS ÉLÉVÉ, DANS LE 'SMOOTH JAZZ'!!! MÉLODIE, TERNURE, CRÉATIVITÉ, AVENTURE...!!! MERCI POUR LA MAGNIFIQUE VIDEO!!!

@kamaalnortellehutchinson5043 4 года назад

Wish we had more music like this.....

@carlosmajola8701 2 года назад

this has been my go-to place whenever I think or talk about Jazz since 2015, there's literally nothing else I can think of. The best of ALL time.

@manilla0618 3 года назад

undying music ... so soothing

@Yus-bc6vt 5 лет назад

Lee'Ritenour,one of the best player. No need to play fast,just serve & play what is needed for the song..

@lexeykuzmintsev2410 4 года назад

Agree.

@dcollins9 9 месяцев назад

Phillip Bailey and Chaka Khan it don't get any better than that

@deloresguye5688 8 месяцев назад

Still Rockin it 2023!!!

@johndefiore3534 2 месяца назад

Music is so "timeless". 8 years old and still fantastic!

@danilogabriel_ 2 года назад

If you got Phillip Bailey and Phil Perry as your BACKGROUND singers... you HAVE to deliver.

@estelajimenez670 2 года назад

Am 78yrs old have been jazz fan my y dream was To attend a fab jazz concert l have heard them all will love this music till lam no longer here One of my fv of many Toots Theilman Diane shurr

@s.ford2290 3 года назад

It's impossible to keep your feet still listening to this song....!

@paulriviere432 3 года назад

Bob James music helped me concentrate during my studies 35 years ago, and now still going very strong!

@kufuorben4128 3 года назад

Woooo...that's Philip Bailey..from Earth. .wind..fire..man..ur still kicking brother. ..four play my group...keep on jiving guys..

@moisesnifras672 Год назад

So smooth with this kind of music this jazz band never goes out of style 🤩

@chauncynash6804 5 лет назад

Hearing this just reminds me how much I miss being a part of music. I need to get back into performing and teaching before I'm to old to do nothing.

@yuritovbin8953 3 года назад

The cohesion of 4 playing as 1 is out of this world

@barbaraclark5259 Год назад

Such beautiful music is “ageless”!!! I’m sure tons of info about this amazing group has been circulating from day one and now certainly there’s even more out there about them. It’s simply thrilling to sit back, chill and enjoy such unique and timeless entertainment!!! ❤

@marthamadsen9850 Год назад

Oh my gosh, where have you been!? YOU were my MOST favorite jazz group 20 years ago and lost track,,,, I was just going thru my jazz music for a listen and saw “Fourplay” and couldn’t believe it!!!! I have so missed you!!!

@cklickliste 3 года назад

Best smooth jazz live ever..

@vince2997 2 года назад

Man, nothing like smooth fusion vocal jazz on a Saturday morning after working a long week. This is what I look forward to with my cup of coffee early on a Saturday morning. Good stuff here!

@vm3813 2 года назад

Well stated from……the other Vince

@dastatroof Год назад

My Heroes... all of these champions have charted a course through time, a pathway to virtue and dignity through soul nourishing music. YEAH BABY!

@UncleKaleo 4 года назад

...and they have Philip Bailey and Phil Perry as "BACK--UP" vocalists!!! Woooot! Smoothest of smooth jazz!

@mrdaynes1 Год назад

An absoĺute pleasure to listen to players who know and care for their stuff!

@niimoo767 4 года назад

I am dying without fourplay.. Fell in love with this band since first listen to yes please and eastbound album

@tommiegreen6395 5 лет назад

The combination of these musicians doesn't get any better

@AlvimarFabre 3 месяца назад

If there is a heaven, this is the sound from there and certainly this group came from there and lives among us 🥰🥰🥰

@vm3813 2 года назад

This particular piece always spoke to my soul. A child of the 70-80s, for me it’s parallel to George Benson, George Duke, Najee, Jazz of that era. My Daddy and I would be out driving SOMEwhere. Naturally, most of these artists come from that era and I am grateful 🙏🏽.

@vanjohnson9837 3 года назад

This is real grove music.dec2020.

@jeromevansanden1148 5 лет назад

This I believe is the original lineup of FOUR PLAY. Absolutely awesome and simply out of this world. I was so lucky to procure the original DVD when it was released and I still have it with me. All musicians true masters and professionals in their own right.

@jeremycarter 4 года назад

Way back in elementary school Chuck Mangione's Feels So Good is what got me started liking jazz. It was shortly after that that I found Fourplay and have loved listening to them ever since. I was probably in 6th grade when I started listening to Fourplay and my mom never heard of them before. I popped their CD in and said, "I LOVE Fourplay!" Her reaction was, "I beg your pardon?" "The music that's playing mom, the group is called Fourplay." 😬😂"Well that's kind of a bad name for a group!" "Well, there are four guys in the group." Not that there's anything wrong with foreplay. 😉

@audiojunkie1047 4 года назад

Mr. Mangione also got my ear and heart tuned into jazz music during my early high school days. Saw him twice and his great band at the Universal Amphitheatre, in LA with my then girlfriend, before graduation in '81. Will miss Chuck Loeb... another GREAT guitarist this band's last iteration has been. Hopefully the band will continue with another great guitarist addition!!!

@johnmaer 3 года назад

Technically, neither Chuck nor Bob/Nathan, Harvey or Lee played straight jazz, JC. What they did parlay was in Chuck M's case was a unique melding of light jazz with rock/pop, they referred to it as jazz fusion I recall. Same with Fourplay.....their music was a more harmonic, linear, easier on the ear version of jazz that incorporated pretty simple to grasp melody lines throughout the instrumental tracks. But, no, this was not jazz. Straight jazz is a more abstract type of music where the compositions accentuate more complicated arrangements and more sophisticated chord patterns with extended musical digressions or solos that didn't necessarily track with the tune. Not important in the bigger scheme of things....but many music aficionados who take themselves very seriously don't even recognize smooth jazz as a legit music genre.

@chupeauxx 8 лет назад

"Chant" is heavenly gift for us from these guys.....what a vocal melody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@deborahmeekins2020 2 месяца назад

Oh my goodness, what am I going to do with this spectacular sound? I simply love it!

@JazzMan76 4 года назад

Outstanding. One hour (plus) in heaven. Thank you so much for sharing this.

@ambesamantewu7722 Год назад

Growing up as a little boy I would watch my father jamming to this music with a whisky glass in his hand. A couple of years later I am jamming to the same music (with no whisky glass unfortunately) - I now understand why he loved this music so much, it is so soothing.

@alexeyzavolokin Год назад

Yeah! Love Fourplay & Nathan East!

@EvangelistStrong 4 года назад

Wow this is a Blessing from the Lord I love this group

@anointedtoserve 4 года назад

Their music touches a deep place in the soul causing you to think about the one you love.

@cliffordlfrelixjr1201 Год назад

The best

@themuzikismylife1 5 месяцев назад

Is anyone still making great music like this anymore?

@boley311 3 месяца назад

Awesome!!

@Patrickspencer999. 7 месяцев назад

Love fourplay forever

@andrey2149 2 года назад

I was in Lee Ritenours concert in Sweden. Was in 1,5meter distance from him. Amazing. So much positive! Nice times!...

@dominiquerogernkazengany7423 Год назад

A consommer sans modération, le sommet du smoothjazz. Delightfull 🤩🤩🤩

@fredericmilgram1771 4 года назад

I love it guys thats all folks i come again and again....?,??? `

@hartanto5758 Год назад

HI FROM INDONESIA.......BEST FOR FOURPLAY.

@jonborromeo4585 4 года назад

Love that running bass on Flying East! Thanks Nathan!

@bolt784 3 года назад

The best musicians ever ,i'm still in love with this jazz music . Thank you Four play.

@TheJoy2yah 3 года назад

Me Too!!

@AlfredoCorreaSinacay-tc2ll 10 месяцев назад

Excelente música fabulosos four play

@neilgill6428 3 года назад

My god getting all of these music geniuses together. Just WOW

@richardfrancis7471 11 месяцев назад

I named my son after Harvey and had the pleasure of meeting him in London after a gig at the Tower of London, where they performed with Al Jarreau and telling him, so it was a lovely moment

@Barbara-zs7zf 6 месяцев назад

Double treat 4 u! I just saw video of that concert on RU-vid, Al was great too.

@kevinbutler7303 6 месяцев назад

That's. Good stuff

@DK00758 3 года назад

I was in my mid 20s when I heard and saw this video of four play and now I am in my mid 40s still into this brilliant band

@sportsofallsortswithkwame8826 3 года назад

fOURPLAY original members Captain Fingers, Nathan, Bob and Harvey would never be duplicated. Arguably the most prolific at their craftsmanship! I truly enjoy the performance, timeless music