Check out scenes from Nathan East’s show at Billboard Live in Tokyo, courtesy of Jun Sato.

Scenes from the show here.

Continuing an amazing year, with the release of his first solo album, Nathan East will play Billboard-Live in Tokyo for the first time as a solo artist.

November 13, 2014

Showtimes:    19:00 & 21:30

Tickets & more information available HERE!

Don’t miss your chance to experience a performance 30 years in the making…

Don’t miss your chance to experience a Night of Fourplay!

August 7 – 10

Seattle

Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley

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Fourplay’s keyboardist Bob James, bassist Nathan East, drummer Harvey Mason, and guitarist Chuck Loeb make a stop at one of their favorite places —Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley in downtown Seattle — August 7-10. The Grammy-nominated, contemporary jazz supergroup’s been in the middle of its “Night of Fourplay” tour world-wide to promote the 2012 hit recording Esprit De Four, with plans to record a silver anniversary album next.

Yesterday, East confirmed the recording plans: “We’re in the process of writing our next album, which will be a celebration of Fourplay’s Silver Anniversary! It’s hard to believe that it’s coming up on 25 years since our first release in 1991, but I guess time flies when you’re having fun.”

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Happy 4th of July!

Check out this Official Video for Nathan East’s “America the Beautiful”…

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In advance of Fourplay’s annual appearance in Philadelphia on June 25 at the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA, I asked two of these world-class musicians, bassist Nathan East and drummer Harvey Mason, to reflect on their careers and their own recently releases solo projects.

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“Get Lucky,” the monster hit single by French duo Daft Punk, turned one year old earlier this month. By coincidence, renowned session bassist Nathan East released a video for his track, “Daft Funk,” which plays on his association with the group, almost a year to the date of the initial release of “Get Lucky” on April 19, 2013.

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Over the course of his 35-year career, Nathan East has worked with the crème de la crème of the music world: Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, Randy Newman, Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Quincy Jones – and, of course, Eric Clapton, with whom he’s recorded and toured with since 1985.

Which more or less explains why it’s taken the bass legend so long to finally record his very own solo album. “It’s a good excuse – I’ve been busy!” East says with a laugh. “Between the bands I’ve been in, the tours I’ve been on and the records I’ve cut, it’s been difficult to sneak my own thing in there. But once I found a block of time last year, I booked Ocean Way Studios in LA, got the band in and recorded as many tracks as we could.”

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