Bob James
Often with James you're talking smooth jazz-rock fusion and classy keyboard innovation. In this case we are also talking boredom, tedium and snoozy keyboard work. Above plodding rhythm backgrounds, the Missouri-born James, 41, plinks through the album in a desultory way at tunes he and arranger Rod Temperton wrote. The only sign of life is when James' old friend Grover Washington Jr. blasts through with a tenor sax solo on Love Power.
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