With over three million album sales to his credit, Boney James is a firmly
established player in the jazz/R&B genre. His playing style is known for being
harder-edged and grittier than his smooth-jazz contemporaries, honed by spending
seven years on the road as a jobbing sax player with R&B acts such as The Isley
Brothers, Bobby Caldwell and Randy Crawford. James' debut album Trust was
released in 1992 on Spindletop Records, a small independent label. The album's
popularity led to James being signed by Warner and after modest success with the
album Backbone, released in 1994, his...