Bob James and David Sanborn are on the road again!

Don’t miss your chance to catch this dynamic duo before the end of the year….

‘Quartette Humaine’ Tour Dates

Fourplay is happy to see all of the fans on the west coast again!

Catch a show in Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Seattle!

Fourplay heats up Yoshi’s San Francisco next Saturday night, October 12!

Join the legendary group for one of their limited shows this fall…

October 12

8:00 pm

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10:00 pm

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After a long break, Fourplay returns to the stage with 4 shows in 2 nights!

October 10, 2013

Shows @ 8 pm & 10 pm

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October 11, 2013

Shows @ 8 pm & 10 pm

Bob James & David Sanborn’s tour for ‘Quartette Humaine’ has sold out across Japan!

This includes shows at the Blue Note Tokyo, the Tokyo Jazz Festival, and in Osaka.

Don’t miss your chance to see this dynamic duo!!!

Preparing for the tour with Toto!

(Simon Phillips, Nathan East, Steve Lukather, Amy Keys, Steve Porcaro, Mabvuto Mavuto, David Paich, and Joeseph Williams)
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Fourplay performing “Sonnymoon” in Leverkusner, Germany (2012)

We’ve been talking about jazz this whole time, but to the younger generation you’re mostly known as someone whose work has been sampled in countless hip-hop songs.

[Pauses] Is that a question? [Laughs]

On first glance, you’re probably the last person in the world that would be associated with hip-hop, as indelible as the melodies and the compositions that you’ve come up with are. Do you have any idea how it all started? I’m guessing it was from “Nautilus,” but when did you first realize that something was going on there?

I wish I knew. I was flabbergasted, and I think I was probably a little bit slow in even finding out about that crazy phenomenon that happened. The first one that I discovered came about as a result of a friend calling me to ask me if I was aware of [DJ] Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, and they had a recording [“Here We Go Again”] in which they had sampled my recording of “Westchester Lady.” This came before, whether or not historically it came before the sampling of “Nautilus,” I don’t know, but this was the first one that I became aware of. And it reached the public spotlight because their record [“Parents Just Don’t Understand”] won the [Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance].

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