The New Cool (Bob James and Nathan East album)

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The New Cool
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 18, 2015
Recorded2014-2015
StudioYamaha Entertainment Group Studios (Franklin, Tennessee); Blackbird Studios, House of Blues, The Tracking Room and Ocean Way Nashville (Nashville, Tennessee).
Genre Jazz
Label Yamaha Entertainment Group
Producer Bob James, Nathan East, Chris Gero, Bryan Lenox
Bob James chronology
Rhodes Scholar: Jazz-Funk Classics 1974-1982
(2013)
The New Cool
(2015)
Silver (Fourplay)
(2015)
Nathan East chronology
Nathan East
(2014)
The New Cool
(2015)
Silver (Fourplay)
(2015)

The New Cool is a jazz album by pianist Bob James and bassist Nathan East, both members of the group Fourplay released in September 2015 by the Yamaha Entertainment Group. The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and No. 5 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. [1] [2]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Bob James; except where indicated

  1. “The New Cool” - 7:08
  2. “Oliver’s Bag” (Nathan East, Jeff Babko) - 5:07
  3. “All Will Be Revealed” - 4:32
  4. “Midnight Magic/Love Me As Though There Were No Tomorrow” (James/Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) - 5:14
  5. “Crazy” (featuring Vince Gill) (Willie Nelson) - 5:04
  6. How Deep Is the Ocean” (Irving Berlin) - 4:35
  7. “Canto Y La Danza” (East, Babko) - 5:06
  8. “Waltz for Judy” (East, Babko) - 3:27
  9. “Seattle Sunrise” - 4:10
  10. “Ghost of a Chance” (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 5:23
  11. “Turbulence” - 3:51
  12. “House of Blue” (U.S. bonus track) [3]

Personnel

Production

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References

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  2. Tamarkin, Jeff. "Fourplay's jazz masters finally record their long-awaited duo project". Music and Musicians Magazine. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  3. "Masterfully "Cool": An Album Unlike Any Other by Bob James and Nathan East". 7 July 2015.