Pianist Bob James has already made a lot of good fusion, but that he can also make a formidable CD with acoustic jazz, he proves with "Straight up". He received accompaniment from top musicians of the young age: bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade. And what starts "Straight up" wonderfully swinging with "Nightcrawler", featuring an unparalleled bass solo by McBride! Lyrically "James"
… sounds. The nine track CD contains four songs that were not written by Bob James himself: the aforementioned "James" (Pat Metheny / Lyle Mays), "The Jody Grind" (Horace Silver), "Lost April" (Newman / De Lange / Spencer) and "Quiet now" (Denny Zeitlin). There is a swinging 'groove' in "Hockney". The other two compositions, "Three mice blind" and "more
